page_title: List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900)
section_title: Pre-1800
hierarchical_section_title: List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900) / Pre-1800
caption_attribution_description: English: Harbour scene, depicting Portuguese ships departing from Lisbon to America.
context_page_description: The list of Texas hurricanes prior to 1900 extends back to 1527 and encompasses all known North Atlantic hurricanes to have affected Texas before 1900.
context_section_description: November 1527 – One of only two known tropical cyclones to have made landfall in the state in November, a tropical cyclones destroys a merchant fleet on Galveston Island, killing at least 162 people and possibly up to 200.
  1553 – During the year, a hurricane affects a Spanish treasure fleet near the coastline, quickly capsizing three vessels and displacing or wrecking thirteen others.
  1554 – Another Spanish treasure fleet is affected by a hurricane, with three ships lost during the storm near South Padre Island.
  November 1590 – Thousands aboard ships are killed by a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico; it is unknown if the storm affected Texas, though meteorologist David Roth included the storm in his publication on Texas Hurricane History.
  September 12, 1600 – An offshore hurricane causes 60 fatalities.
  August 30, 1615 – A storm capsizes a ship offshore, killing all passengers aboard.
  October 21, 1631 – More than 300 lives are lost during a hurricane that moves through the Gulf of Mexico; it is unknown if the storm affected Texas, though meteorologist David Roth included the storm in his publication on Texas Hurricane History.
  September 4, 1766 – Galveston is struck by a hurricane which washes five treasure ships ashore. The storm produces a storm surge of around 7 feet (2.1 m), which causes flooding near the coastline. A mission on the lower Trinity River is destroyed.
  1791 – Moving ashore along the southern Texas coastline, a hurricane floods South Padre Island and other surrounding areas. About 50,000 cattle are killed due to the flooding.
caption: Portuguese ships, then part of the Spanish treasure fleets, being loaded with riches. Contemporary print by Theodor de Bry
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