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 Aug 23, 2:29 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 329 AM CDT WED AUG 23 2006 .DISCUSSION...QUITE A BIT OF MOISTURE ACROSS EAST TEXAS YESTERDAY EVENING WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.75 TO 2.25 INCHES ACROSS THE CWA. SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATED HIGH CLOUDS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TX THIS MORNING MAINLY CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUDS FROM YESTERDAYS THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED IN FROM THE NORTHEAST. OUTFLOW FROM THAT CONVECTIVE COMPLEX APPEARS TO BE DRAPED WEST AND SOUTH OF THE CWA WITH RADAR IMAGES INDICATING NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF CONVECTION ALONG THAT BOUNDARY. LAPS SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES A RELATIVELY STABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE CWA. WITH THAT SAID...LOW TO MID LEVEL ANTICYCLONE OVER NORTHWEST TX TO DRAW MOISTURE AND CONVECTION OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA TOWARDS SOUTHEAST TX LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. ALSO...OUTFLOW FROM YESTERDAYS STORM MAY PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERN TODAY IS WITH THE HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AND SLOW STORM MOTION EXPECTED...THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP LIKELY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS TODAY...WITH MENTION OF SOME STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...AS AN INVERTED LOW TO MID LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO MOVES WESTWARD. WILL LOWER POPS SLIGHTLY THURSDAY AS THE TROUGH MOVES FARTHER INLAND ACROSS NORTHEAST MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TX EVEN THOUGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES REMAIN HIGH. WITH A 500MB TROUGH DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST UNITED STATES THURSDAY...THE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AND SHIFT EASTWARD FRIDAY. THIS SHOULD PROVIDE A CONTINUING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. WITH THE 500MB RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST U.S. SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK...AN EASTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL ALLOW MOISTURE OVER THE GULF TO CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE UPPER TX COAST. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE PERIOD MAINLY FOR AFTERNOON SEABREEZE CONVECTION. 32 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 96 77 98 78 96 / 30 10 20 10 20 HOUSTON (IAH) 94 76 95 78 92 / 30 20 30 20 30 GALVESTON (GLS) 90 81 91 82 91 / 30 20 40 20 40 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2006 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-231945- 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- 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING... .DAY ONE...REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM BRENHAM TO CONROE TO SEGNO. THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE ABOVE AREA WITH DAYTIME HEATING. WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE...EXPECT PRECIPITATION TO INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PULSE UP TO SEVERE LEVELS...WITH DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS THE PRIMARY WEATHER THREAT. IN ADDITION...STORM MOTION IS ALSO FORECAST TO BE SLOWING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS SO A QUICK 1 TO 3 INCH RAINFALL ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE UNDER THE STRONGER STORMS. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE COMING TO AN END BY MID TO LATE EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:27 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
86 year old man killed in a house fire started by a lightning strike.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Galveston | 2006-08-23 | 86 | Male | Permanent Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5525960.