3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 14, 10:32 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1032 AM CST WED DEC 14 2005
.UPDATE...
SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR
FORT SMITH TO WACO TO JUNCTION AND THERE WAS A 700 MB SHORT WAVE
MOVING ACROSS SE TX THIS MORNING. THE AREA WAS IN THE VICINITY OF
A RIGHT-REAR QUAD OF THE NORTHERN JET BRANCH AND THE LEFT-FRONT
AREA OF THE SUBTROPICAL JET. BEST SURFACE LI/S WERE OFF THE COAST
AND THE HELICITY FROM THE LCH SOUNDING WAS 195 WITH A CAPE OF
1500.
TORNADO WATCH WAS JUST ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SE TX
THROUGH 5 PM CST. FIRST EXPECTING ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS TO TRAIN
OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING DUE MAINLY TO THE LOW-LEVEL JET. THERE
IS ENOUGH TURNING IN THE LOW LEVELS FOR SOME MESO-CYCLONES TO
DEVELOP -- HAVE ALREADY HAD ONE SPLITTING STORM IN JACKSON COUNTY
THAT APPROACHED SEVERE LEVELS. THE MAIN CONCERNS FOR TODAY ARE
RAINFALL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.
HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALREADY OCCURRING ALONG THE HIGHWAY 59 CORRIDOR
AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS THE
FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THINK THE SEVERE WEATHER CHANCES WILL
INCREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND LAST THROUGH THE END OF THE WATCH
PERIOD.
WILL UPDATE THE FORECAST FOR THE WATCH INFORMATION.
PL-40
&&
.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
GM...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION FROM 5 PM WEDNESDAY TO
MIDNIGHT THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: WATERS FROM
FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM...AND
WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO 6 PM THURSDAY FOR
THE FOLLOWING ZONES: WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA
SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM...AND WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO
FREEPORT OUT 20 NM.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL
20 NM TO 60 NM...AND WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20
TO 60 NM.
SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION FROM MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO 6
PM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: GALVESTON BAY...AND
MATAGORDA BAY.
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 833 AM CST WED DEC 14 2005 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-151445- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 833 AM CST WED DEC 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST WILL HELP RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA. DAMAGING WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE TODAY. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT AND THE TRAINING EFFECT OF STORMS MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS...WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE LIKELY WITH IS0LATED TOTALS UP TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT FOR MINOR FLOODING WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM LIVINGSTON TO CONROE TO EL CAMPO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER RAIN EVENT IS POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY AS A COASTAL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS. THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND POSSIBLY THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS MAY RECEIVE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:20 UTC.
3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
F0 Tornado caused roof and tree damage.
F0 Tornado was sighted on State Highway 99 just south of Interstate 10. No damage reported.
Two injuries in Tomball from phone usage during lightning event.
Flooding in and around the Houston area from 3.50 to 4.00 inches of rain. Water was up to one foot deep in Clear Lake area.
Flooding in Porter with numerous roads impassable.
Flooded streets in and around Hardin.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2005Warnings in Texas, December 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5482796, 5482797, 5482801, 5482798, 5482800, 5482799.