Do You Remember Lubbock’s Wettest October In the City’s Recorded History?

The tail-end of September this year saw some pretty heavy rainfall, what with a slow-moving cold front dropping rain and causing flash flooding all across the state. This severe weather is supposed to carry into the month of October, but do you know what year saw the wettest October in Lubbock's history?

Lubbock's Rainiest October

Picture this: The year is 1983. You wake up on October 19 to go to school at Lubbock High with dinner plans at Chinese Kitchen later that day. With Halloween right around the corner, you're already making plans to go out with friends and even trick-or-treat a little.

The world is your oyster until... the rain starts falling and doesn't stop. October 19, 1983, recorded the highest amount of rainfall in Lubbock's recorded history with a whopping 5.4 inches in just one day.

To put this into perspective, the entire month of October that year saw 10.8 inches of precipitation, the wettest October in Lubbock's history. That means that half of the entire month's worth of rain fell in one day.

Other Lubbock Weather Records

If you thought learning when Lubbock received the most rainfall in one month was cool, get a load of these other weather records that Lubbock has seen:

• Highest temp - 100 degrees - October 3, 2000
• Lowest temp - 16 degrees - October 31, 2019
• Hottest average monthly high - 86.1 degrees - 2024
• Coldest average monthly high - 64.4 degrees - 1923
• Most snow in one day - 4.1 inches - October 21, 1911
• Most snow in one October - 7.5 inches - 1976

You can always keep up with the National Weather Service to see the weather forecasts for Lubbock and surrounding areas, and keep up with extremeweatherwatch.com to see other weather records for the Hub City.