2 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 28, 2:05 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 305 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 .DISCUSSION... A GOOD PART OF THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS SAW SOME RAIN TODAY...BUT IT ENDED SOONER THAN EXPECTED. SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE ACTIVITY HAS KEPT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT FROM OCCURRING. WITH SEVERAL HOURS OF DAYTIME HEATING LEFT...THINK WE COULD STILL GET SOME ISOLATED STORMS TO DEVELOP. IF ANYTHING DOES FORM...IT SHOULD QUICKLY WEAKEN/DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. PROBLEM OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS (BEGINNING TONIGHT) WILL BE THE TIMING OF SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE STATE AND HOW CLOSE TO SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL THEY GET. MODELS ARE NOT DOING A GREAT JOB SO FAR WITH THESE DISTURBANCES. WE COULD VERY WELL SEE ANOTHER BATCH OF STORMS DEVELOP TONIGHT AND MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF OUR AREA TOMORROW MORNING... LEAVING SOME OF THE AFTERNOON DRY AGAIN (JUST LIKE TODAY). AND THE SITUATION CHANGES LITTLE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS THESE HARD TO TIME IMPULSES MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. WILL THEREFORE GO WITH HIGHISH POPS (50%-60%) SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...AND THEN LOWER THEM A LITTLE (30% TO 40%) MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CANNOT BE RULED OUT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS DUE TO HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES. UPPER RIDGING MIGHT GET STRONG ENOUGH THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT SATURDAY...SO WENT WITH 20% POPS FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON ACTIVITY. TEMPERATURES WILL CHANGE LITTLE ON PREDICTED LOWS. WILL SHOW A GRADUAL WARMUP FOR DAYTIME HIGHS AS THE UPCOMING WEEK PROGRESSES DUE TO EXPECTED LESS RAIN AND CLOUD COVER. SPC HAS EXPANDED THEIR DAY TWO (SUNDAY) SLIGHT RISK AREA TO INCLUDE ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS THAT PORTIONS OF OUR AREA MIGHT GET VERY UNSTABLE (LIS -9 TO -10...CAPES AROUND 4000). WE MAY END UP NEEDING TO MENTION A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN TOMORROWS FORECAST. STAY TUNED 42 && .MARINE... WINDS WILL PICK UP A LITTLE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS OVER THE WATERS. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY WHERE WINDS/SEAS COULD BRIEFLY REACH CAUTION CRITERIA OVER THE 20 TO 60 NM WATERS. WINDS/SEAS WILL DROP OFF MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH MIDWEEK AS FRONT STALLS ACROSS SE TX. SERIES OF SHORTWAVES WILL KEEP THREAT OF TSRA AND LOCALIZED ROUGH SEAS IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. 35 && .AVIATION... PRECIP ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTWAVE CROSSING THE AREA HAS NOW PUSHED EAST OF THE TAF SITES. SUBSIDENCE BEHIND EXITING SHORTWAVE WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN...SO EXPECTING ONLY ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA TO FIRE WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND ALONG THE SEABREEZE FRONT. GIVEN THE EXPECTED LOW COVERAGE DID NOT MENTION ANY PRECIP OR CBS IN THE TAFS THIS AFTN. EXPECT TO SEE GROUND FOG FORM AGAIN LATE TONIGHT BUT WITH A LITTLE BETTER MIXING IN PLACE DO NOT EXPECT VISIBILITIES AS TO DROP AS LOW AS THEY WERE THIS MORNING. NEXT SHORTWAVE WILL AFFECT THE AREA BETWEEN 12Z AND 18Z SUNDAY WITH THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF TSRA. 35 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 71 85 71 85 71 / 30 60 50 50 30 HOUSTON (IAH) 73 86 73 86 73 / 30 60 50 50 30 GALVESTON (GLS) 77 85 77 85 77 / 30 50 50 50 30 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .TX...NONE. .GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 244 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-291200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON- GALVESTON BAY-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MATAGORDA BAY-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER- WASHINGTON-WHARTON- 244 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL COMBINE WITH HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS TO PRODUCE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH AT LEAST TUESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE A POSSIBILITY AREAWIDE THROUGH THIS PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado at Highway 21 East or 10 miles east of I-45; no damage.
Tornado a few miles north of the Eastham prison unit near FM 230; no damage.
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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: 5450967, 5450968, 5450969, 5450970.