Severe thunderstorms created strong winds and hail as they moved eastward across the region.
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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 episode as NWS HGX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms created strong winds and hail as they moved eastward across the region.
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 Jun 29, 1:36 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 236 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 .DISCUSSION... THE CONVECTION ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES HAS PLAYED OUT AS PLANNED THIS AFT. HOWEVER...EXPECTED MORE ACTIVITY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE ALONG THE UPPER COAST. APPEARS AS THOUGH MID-LEVEL SUBSIDENCE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT ALONG THE UPPER COAST. STILL THINK WE WILL SEE SOME ACTIVITY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS IT PROGRESSES INLAND. AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-10 SHOULD SEE THE BEST PRECIP COVERAGE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. DURING THE EVE HOURS EXPECT A FEW ISOLATED PULSE SVR TSTMS TO BE POSSIBLE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS WELL (GENERALLY ALONG AND N OF I-10). WILL SEE AT LEAST A FEW STORMS MOVE IN FROM THE NW. IT IS HARD TO IDENTIFY A DISTINCT CF ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TOMORROW IN THE MODELS. HOWEVER...THERE WILL BE A GRADUAL MOISTURE DISCONTINUITY AS DRIER AIR BEGINS TO FILTER IN FROM THE NE. THERE WILL ALSO LIKELY BE AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OR TWO ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND/OR SOUTHERN ZONES. THESE BOUNDARIES COUPLED WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND HEATING SHOULD SET THE STAGE AGAIN FOR SCATTERED TSTMS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. WILL SEE MUCH LESS TSTM ACTIVITY ON TUES WITH DRIER AIR CONTINUING TO PUSH INTO THE AREA AND VERY LITTLE IF ANY ON WED. STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY ON THE UPCOMING HOLIDAY WEEKEND FORECAST...BUT KEPT POPS FAIRLY LOW FOR THE TIME BEING AS SEA BREEZE AND HEATING SHOULD BE THE TRIGGERS. NO BIG CHANGES HAVE BEEN IN THIS PACKAGE...JUST SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS. 33 && .AVIATION... WOULD EXPECT SOME SCT TSTMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPING IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS ACROSS THE METRO AREA AS CONVECTION JUST NORTH OF THE AREA SAGS SWD. SEABREEZE IS LATE GETTING GOING...BUT WOULD STILL WATCH FOR POSSIBLE BOUNDARY COLLISIONS IF IT EVENTUALLY DOES. RESULTING STORMS COULD PULSE UP TO SEVERE LEVELS AND PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. OTHERWISE...ANTICIPATE MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT BUT THERE COULD BE SOME SCT PRECIP THROUGHOUT THE REGION AS A DIFFUSE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN N TX MOVES CLOSER TO OUR CWA. THIS BOUNDARY (AND AGAIN THE SEABREEZE) WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY MON...ESP WITH DAYTIME HEATING. 47 && .MARINE... WINDS/SEAS SHOULD REALLY START DIMINISHING TONIGHT AND MONDAY AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS. WIND DIRECTIONS WILL BE LIGHT/VARIABLE INTO TUES WITH THE LANDBREEZE/SEABREEZE CIRCULATION PREVAILING EACH DAY. LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW BECOMES PREVALENT BEYOND THAT WITH SEAS REMAINING 3 FEET OR LESS. 47 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 72 93 70 97 71 / 50 40 20 10 20 HOUSTON (IAH) 72 92 72 96 72 / 50 50 20 10 20 GALVESTON (GLS) 80 90 79 90 78 / 30 50 20 20 20 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && DISCUSSION...33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 245 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226- 227-235>238-301245- 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- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM-WHARTON- 245 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... .DAY ONE...TONIGHT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AS ABUNDANT MOISTURE IS IN PLACE AND NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL BE PRESENT IN AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THE AREA MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-10 DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND PENNY SIZED HAIL. .DAY TWO...MONDAY BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA BEFORE SUNRISE AND INTERACTS WITH THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND POSSIBLY THE SEABREEZE. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A small barn was destroyed with a tenth of a mile long debris path.
Strong thunderstorm winds caused major roof damage to a residential home on the 400 block of Lewis Street in East Bernard.
A strong thunderstorm wind gust was measured two miles north of Mission Bend.
A strong thunderstorm wind gust was estimated three miles west southwest of Alief.
A strong thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at Houston Intercontinental Airport.
Nickel size hail was observed one mile north of Barrett.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2008
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: 118585, 118588, 118193, 118195, 118194, 118196.