Hurricanes near Port Lavaca, TX

Hurricanes

2 major (Category 3+)

Tropical storms

within 60 miles since 1950

Close calls

hurricanes within 30 miles

Since 1950, 6 hurricanes and 10 tropical storms have passed within 60 miles of Port Lavaca. That's a hurricane about once every 13 years. The most recent hurricane was Beryl in 2024. The strongest was Carla in 1961, with winds near 144 mph as it went by. Most came in September.

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Every storm since 1950

Year	Storm	Strength nearby	Winds, mph	Closest, mi
2024	Beryl Jul	Category 1	92	38
2021	Nicholas Sep	Category 1	75	45
2020	Beta Sep	Tropical storm	52	1
2017	Harvey Aug	Category 4	132	4
2015	Bill Jun	Tropical storm	58	11
2003	Claudette Jul	Category 1	92	8
2002	Fay Sep	Tropical storm	58	10
1998	Frances Sep	Tropical storm	58	22
1989	Allison Jun	Tropical storm	52	56
1980	Danielle Sep	Tropical storm	40	39
1979	Elena Sep	Tropical storm	40	50
1973	Delia Sep	Tropical storm	63	50
1971	Fern Sep	Category 1	86	28
1968	Candy Jun	Tropical storm	69	39
1964	Abby Aug	Tropical storm	69	16
1961	Carla Sep	Category 4	144	2

By decade

Decade	Hurricanes	Tropical storms
1950s	0	0
1960s	1	2
1970s	1	2
1980s	0	2
1990s	0	1
2000s	1	1
2010s	1	1
2020s	2	1

From the National Hurricane Center's best-track archive (HURDAT2), Atlantic and eastern Pacific, through 2025. A storm counts when its center came within 60 miles of the middle of Port Lavaca at tropical-storm strength or more. "Winds" is the strongest it was while that close, over open water; inland it is usually less.

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