Coastal Kenedy County, Texas
Tornadoes, hail, floods and severe storms recorded here between 2022 and 2026, from NOAA's Storm Events Database. Search an address to see which tornadoes came closest to it.
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NOAA's storm database records tornadoes back to 1950 and hail and thunderstorm wind back to 1955, but floods only from 1996 on. Older floods are missing here. For those, the U.S. Geological Survey's stream gauge records and flood reports are the place to look.
Most significant events
The strongest tornadoes, deadliest events and biggest damage here, up to 50.
Heat Heat
The final day of a trifecta of dangerous heat afternoons saw the Automated Weather Observing System sensor at Kingsville NAS (17 miles north of the county line, inland in Kleberg), as well as proxy observations from Rincon del San Jose (along Laguna Madre) as well a downstream ob…
Heat Heat
By proxy with observations in coastal Cameron County, the estimated heat index one and two counties north (Willacy and Kenedy) likely achieved similar values for about 7:30 hours from late morning through late afternoon reaching advisory levels (111 to 114F in this case). The Aut…
Heat Heat
By proxy with observations in the Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) at Brooks County Airport near Falfurrias, about 10 miles west of the County line, and historical interpolation with Sarita, as well as distant proxy from observations at Cameron County Airport, it was lik…
Drought Drought
The March 31, 2026 Drought Monitor removed the last of Severe (D2) Drought in coastal Kenedy County and replaced it with Extreme (level 3 of 4, D3) conditions, except for the northeast corner.
Drought Drought
A sliver of D3 (Extreme Drought) would arrive at the southeast tip of coastal Kenedy County on March 24th, with Severe (D2) conditions prevailing elsewhere near the coast through the 30th.
Drought Drought
Through March 10, D2 (Severe Drought) was present over all of Coastal Kenedy County with the exception of the extreme northeastern section. D2 conditions would overspread that northeast sliver between March 17 and 23; status quo from this would continue through the 23rd.
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Observations from the Sarita mesonet site, the Yturria Ranch near the Willacy/Kenedy line, and Rincon del San Jose (Texas Coastal Ocean Observing Network) suggested freezing temperatures for around 5 hours in Coastal Kenedy County early on January 27th, 2026. a hard freeze was in…
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Rincon del San Jose recorded freezing temperatures (32F degrees or lower) for 10 hours from 1:24-11:30am CST on Monday January 26th. Using a combination and proxy of Rincon del San Jose and Baffin Bay Texas Coastal Ocean Observing Network, or TCOON, Coastal Kenedy County likely r…
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
Extreme Cold Warning Criteria (Wind chills at or below 15F) was reached Baffin Bay (Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network, TCOON) at around 4 AM, continuing through 10 AM. Values bottomed out at 13F around 9 AM at the site, on the Kenedy/Kleberg County line. Slightly lower dura…
Cold/Wind Chill Cold/Wind Chill
The Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON) site at Rincon del San Jose recorded minimum wind chill values at or below 25F degrees (Cold Weather Advisory Criteria) for 9 hours from 1:15-10:00am CST on the morning of Sunday January 25th. A location along the Kenedy/Kleberg…
Drought Drought
The US Drought Monitor indicated Severe (D2) Drought across northeastern Coastal Kenedy County through December 15th. Just enough rain fell soon after to improve conditions to D1 (Moderate); these conditions would prevail until the end of the year.
Drought Drought
Extreme (D3) Drought developed across the the northern third of coastal Kenedy County, on November 18th and continued through and beyond month's end. The combination of dryness, warm to hot temperatures, and very low soil moisture contributed to the worsening condition here.
Drought Drought
Severe (D2) level drought expanded to cover the northern two-thirds of coastal Kenedy County on March 25th, courtesy of breezy to windy, generally dry (low humidity) days, and above average day/night temperatures with no wetting dew. Conditions would improve soon after rains on M…
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Sarita Texas Water Development Board mesonet station recorded 12 hours, from 11:15pm on February 19 to 11:15am on February 20, of freezing temperatures (temperatures at or below 32F degrees). By proxy, as well as from observations along the coast at Baffin Bay and Rincon del San …
Wildfire Wildfire
A wildfire started by unknown causes occurred in brush near Penascal Rincon, in northeast Kenedy County just south of Baffin Bay. The fire burned 419 acres before being contained by early evening on May 2nd.
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Rincon del San Jose in Coastal Kenedy County recorded temperatures at or below freezing for 5.5 hours (between 330 AM and 9 AM on the 17th). A minimum temperature of 29F was recorded at 8 AM on the 17th.
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
A Minimum Wind Chill value of 10F degrees was recorded in Rincon at 8:24 AM. The duration of temperatures within the wind chill criteria was for almost 10 hours.
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Observations on Laguna Madre, a close proxy to both coastal Kenedy County and the Kenedy Island, fell to or below freezing between 524 and 7 AM on the 15th, with freezing temperatures persisting until late afternoon (mid-Kenedy coast) and just after sunset (along the Kenedy/Klebe…
Frost/Freeze Frost/Freeze
Rincon del San Jose in Coastal Kenedy County recorded temperatures at or below freezing between 18-19 hours (spanning between 1106 PM on the 15th and 647 PM on the 16th). A Hard Freeze (temperatures below 28 degrees for 2 or more hours) occurred between the hours of 418 AM and 10…
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
A Minimum Wind Chill value of 14F degrees was recorded in Rincon at 11 AM. The duration of temperatures within the wind chill criteria was for about 4.5 hours.
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
A Minimum Wind Chill value of 10F degrees was recorded in Baffin Bay at 8:24 AM. The duration of temperatures within the wind chill criteria was for about 12 hours.
Drought Drought
Severe (D2) Drought persisted into early November across the northern portions of coastal Kenedy County. Residual moisture from prior late October rains would improve conditions to Moderate (D1) Drought on the 7th.
Drought Drought
General rains of 0.5 to 0.75 inches across coastal Kenedy County from late October 10th through early October 11th was enough to knock down drought conditions from Severe (D2) to Moderate (D1) or Abnormally Dry (D0) across the southern three-quarters of the area, with Severe cond…
Drought Drought
Severe (D2) Drought covered all of coastal Kenedy County from through October 9th, with the area shrinking to cover the northern half of coastal Kenedy County with the southern half improving to Moderate (D1, levels) due to 0.25 to 0.75 inches during the afternoon of October 5th.
Drought Drought
Beneficial rainfall from Tropical Storm Harold, which tracked through Kenedy County on August 22 and dropped between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall, was all dried up by the end of September. By the 26th, Severe (D2) Drought had covered all of Coastal Kenedy County, courtesy of 10-25%…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport Automated Surface Observing System recorded four hours of apparent temperature of 111 or higher, with values peaking at just under 116 degrees between noon and 1 PM. Farther north, the typically high-reading location at Kingsville Naval Air Station reco…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport Automated Surface Observing System recorded just under three hours of apparent temperature of 111 or higher, with values peaking at 114 degrees. At Kingsville Naval Air Station - a location where heat index values run a bit hot compared with surrounding…
Heat Heat
The observing station at Kingsville NAS reported a peak heat index of just below 117 degrees at 3:56 PM, with observations on either side between 111 and 112. Though this location runs higher than nearby areas, proxy between Coastal Willacy and Kingsville supports a two-hour peri…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on September 6th. At Kingsville Naval Air Station (Kleberg), typically high heat index values near 117 degrees occurred from just bef…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 3:53 PM CDT on September 5th. At Kingsville Naval Air Station (Kleberg County), interpolating down from the typically higher values and accountin…
Heat Heat
The Texas Water Development Board Mesonet site in Sarita (TW100) in northern Kenedy County recorded heat indices reaching or exceeding 111 degrees between 11:56 AM CDT and 5:56 PM CDT the afternoon of September 4th. By proxy, it can be inferred that Coastal kenedy County also rec…
Tropical Storm Tropical Storm
Tropical Storm Harold made landfall along the Island of Kenedy County on August 22nd just before 10AM CDT. While there are no observations in this zone, it is reasonable to use the the Texas Coastal Ocean Observing Network (TCOON) site at Rincon del San Jose (RSJT2) on the other …
Tropical Storm Tropical Storm
Tropical Storm Harold made landfall along Coastal Kenedy County on August 22nd around 10AM CDT. While there are no observations in this zone, it is reasonable to use the the Texas Coastal Ocean Observing Network (TCOON) site at Rincon del San Jose (RSJT2) on the other side of the…
Drought Drought
Lack of persistent rain and hot to very hot temperatures allowed Severe (D2) Drought to develop across the northern half of Coastal Kenedy County on August 22nd, or about the northern 18 miles of the zone. Tropical Storm Harold brought some beneficial rain to the area on August 2…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 10:53 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 19th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Water Development Board loca…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 2:53 PM CDT on August 18th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions.
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 11:53 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 3:53 PM CDT on August 13th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Water Development Board meso…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 9:30 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 12th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. At the Texas Water Development Board me…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 11th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Water Development Board loca…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 10th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. At the Texas Water Development Board's…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 11:53 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 2:53 PM CDT on August 9th.By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Water Development Board locati…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 11:53 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 3:53 PM CDT on August 8th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Water Development Board meson…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 11:53 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 7th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. The Texas Mesonet location in Sarita (n…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 6th. By proxy, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy County had similar conditions. In addition, the inland location in Sar…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 2:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 4:53 PM CDT on August 5th. By proxy, including similar heat index conditions farther inland in Sarita, it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy had s…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 1:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 3:53 PM CDT on August 3rd. By proxy, including observations from a mesonet in Sarita (northwest Kenedy), it can be assumed that Coastal Kenedy Cou…
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by approximately 1:30 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 3:30 PM CDT on June 25th. By proxy, these values likely extended northward near the coast of Kenedy County. In addition, the inland …
Heat Heat
The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 by 12:53 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 5:30 PM CDT on June 23rd. By proxy, these values likely extended northward through coastal Kenedy County as well. Times were adjusted for Coastal…
Heat Heat
It can be assumed that, by proxy, Coastal Kenedy County had at least three hours of heat index at or above 111 degrees. The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 as early as 10:30 AM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 2:30 PM CDT on J…
Heat Heat
It can be assumed that, by proxy, Coastal Kenedy County had at least three hours of heat index at or above 111 degrees. The Cameron County Airport ASOS reported a heat index of 111 as early as 3:30 PM CDT, with 111 or higher values persisting until approximately 5:30 PM CDT on Ju…
Events by year, as a table
| Year | Events | Tornadoes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 41 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 |
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