Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Winnie, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Anahuac, TX, 14 miles west of Winnie at 24 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 62°F and 43°F. August and September are the wettest at 7.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 59.8 inches over 67 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 57% of the year's precipitation (34.2 of 59.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 61 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 7.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 68 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 11 nights a year. That 59.8 inches is more than at 302 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (97%). Beaumont, 23 miles northeast, has its own station (Beaumont City, TX): 65.1 inches a year, 5.3 more than here, and an August average high of 93°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station High Island, TX, 16 miles south, averaged 90°F in August and 59°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Sabine Pass tide gauge, 32 miles from Winnie, 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 32 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Winnie: 14 flash floods, 14 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. They killed 3 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $300.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 78 mph, on May 22, 2013. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 298 have had fewer than Winnie.

Flood insurance policyholders in Winnie's ZIP code 77665 have filed 690 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $53.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019: 329 claims (48% of all) and $32.8 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 174 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 with 68. 88% 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, 351 have fewer than Winnie.