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The Storm Record for Beaumont and Jefferson County

Six named systems in fifteen years, each with a date, one thing that can be checked, and where it was checked. Nothing here is rounded up for effect. A roof in Port Neches has had more reasons to be replaced than a roof in most of Texas, and the record is the reason this site exists.

  1. September 24, 2005Hurricane Rita. Category 3 landfall at the Texas–Louisiana border in the early hours. The National Weather Service post-storm report for the Lake Charles office records a peak gust of 91 knots from 330 degrees at the Beaumont airport at 0847 UTC, 93 knots at the Nederland tower and 112 knots at the Port Arthur tower, and notes a five- to ten-foot storm surge at Sabine Pass with two to three feet of water in minimally elevated homes. Rita is the roof most of the older Beaumont stock is on, or the one before it.
  2. September 13, 2008Hurricane Ike. Landfall on Galveston Island as a Category 2, with Jefferson and Orange counties on the strong side. The NWS Lake Charles surge record puts the peak storm tide at 14.24 feet at Sabine Pass and 11.93 feet at Port Arthur. Bridge City, across the county line in Orange County, was flooded almost house for house. On the Beaumont side, Ike was a wind and rain event; on the Sabine, it was surge.
  3. August 31, 2017Hurricane Harvey. The city's water system failed. As the Texas Tribune reported that morning, flooding damaged the pump station on the Neches River that was Beaumont's primary supply and the city also lost its secondary supply at the Loeb wells, leaving roughly 120,000 people without water. The record rainfall was next door: the NWS confirmed 60.58 inches at Nederland. For roofs, Harvey was mostly water from below and days of saturated attics rather than wind.
  4. September 17–19, 2019Tropical Storm Imelda. NWS Lake Charles measured 44.29 inches two miles south-southwest of Fannett, 31 of them in twelve hours, which makes Imelda the fourth-wettest tropical cyclone in Texas history. Vehicles sat stuck or flooded on Interstate 10 between Beaumont and Winnie for two and a half days, and the NWS count for Jefferson County was about 5,100 homes flooded.
  5. August 27, 2020Hurricane Laura. Landfall near Cameron, Louisiana at about 1 a.m. as a Category 4. The National Hurricane Center report lists the Beaumont airport at 42 knots sustained with a gust to 64 knots, Orange at 33 sustained with a gust to 47, and Sabine Pass at 45 with a gust to 58, and says trees, power lines and power poles were blown down across Jefferson, Orange, Hardin, Tyler, Jasper and Newton counties with some homes damaged. Laura was the storm that pushed a lot of Orange County toward new siding.
  6. October 9, 2020Hurricane Delta. Six weeks after Laura, landfall on the Louisiana coast again. In the NWS Lake Charles post-storm report the storm-total rainfall two miles southeast of Beaumont was 6.46 inches. Delta's wind figures for Jefferson County are not reproduced here because they could not be confirmed cleanly; it was a lesser storm locally than Laura and is listed for completeness.

What Is Deliberately Not on This Page

No hail event. Searches of the 2020 to 2026 record for Beaumont turned up nothing worth naming, and this site does not invent one. No figure for Hurricane Beryl in 2024, which came ashore far to the west at Matagorda and is not a Jefferson County story. No dollar totals, because the ones in circulation mix counties and sources. If a number is not on this page it is because it could not be verified at the source, not because it was inconvenient.

What the record adds up to for a homeowner: wind first, water second, and the certificate always. After Rita, roofs across Jefferson County were rebuilt to the specification of 2005; after Laura, a share of them again. That is why the windstorm certificate page comes before anything else on this site, and why the wind damage repair page assumes the storm rather than the calendar decided the schedule.

The Next Storm Is Not on the Record Yet

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