NWS confirms tornado touched down in Cypress area during Thursday's storms

HOUSTON — A tornado did touch down in at least one part of the Houston area last night, according to the National Weather Service.

At this point, we don’t know the details of the tornado, but Jeff Evans with the NWS confirmed the tornado touched down in northwest Harris County.

The NWS had teams spread out across the region and Evans told KHOU 11’s Victor Jacobo that the damage in Cypress was from a tornado.

“Our third team just reached out to me.,” he said. “They can confirm we did have a tornado in the northwest part, at the beginning of the storm up near Cypress. Those details will be shared out of the path and intensity of that as they work that.”

Evans also said straight line wind at 100 miles per hour moved through downtown Houston and winds between 90 and 100 miles per hour went through the southeast part of the county all the way to Baytown.

This is a breaking story. We’ll post updates as we get them.