Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Vidor, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Beaumont City, TX, 6 miles southwest of Vidor at 20 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 93°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 43°F. September is the wettest at 7.4 inches of precipitation on average and February and March the driest at 3.7 inches; the year adds up to 65.1 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 58% of the year's precipitation (37.9 of 65.1 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 7.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 95 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 9 nights a year. That 65.1 inches is more than at 311 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (100%). Port Neches, 12 miles south, has its own station (Port Arthur SE Tx Airport, TX): 62.2 inches a year, 2.9 less than here, and the same August average high, 93°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Arthur, TX, 20 miles south, averaged 88°F in August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Sabine Pass tide gauge, 30 miles from Vidor, has risen 2.43 ± 0.15 inches per decade from 1958 to 2020, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 24.3 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 136 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 157 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Vidor: 87 thunderstorm wind reports, 58 flash floods, 6 floods, 3 heavy rain events and 3 lightning strikes. They killed 1 person and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $8.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 110 mph, on April 14, 2018. May has had the most flash floods, 15 of 58. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 689 have had fewer than Vidor.

Flood insurance policyholders in Vidor's ZIP code 77662 have filed 3,603 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $236.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019: 1,217 claims (34% of all) and $106.0 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 936 and Flooding in 1982 with 300. 89% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 433 Texas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 411 have fewer than Vidor.