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NWS confirms two EF 1 tornados touched down Thursday — one in the Cypress area and one in Waller County
HOUSTON — Two tornadoes touched down in Southeast Texas during Thursday’s severe weather, according to the National Weather Service. One was in Cypress. The other was in Waller County.
According oto the National Weather Service, the Cypress tornado was an EF-1 with winds of 110 miles per hour. We don’t know the path and how long it was on the ground, 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 about the Cypress 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.”
We learned later in the afternoon that an EF-1 tornado also touched down in Waller County southwest of the city of Waller. We’re waiting on more details on that one.
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.