NWS confirms a tornado touched down northwest of Houston

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An EF-1 tornado touched down near Cypress, Texas, on May 16, shortly before straight-line winds associated with the same storm system tore through Houston.

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00:00 Northwest of Houston in Cyprus, an EF1 tornado was confirmed.

00:03 This touched down last night, peak winds of 110 miles per hour.

00:06 This is the same cell that tore right directly through the city of Houston.

00:12 Yes, and that is going to be the active pattern that led to, again, all of the problems.

00:19 But, of course, we are now finally starting to get a chance to dry out a little bit, which is some great news.

00:25 Unfortunately, though, it comes with a lot of heat.

00:29 Accu the real fill values in the triple digits, 110 to 100 to 105 range here.

00:35 And for some that are in parts of southwestern Texas, that region, we're used to the dry heat.

00:42 And that's what it's going to be, a bit of a drier heat.

00:44 But where we have all the moisture on the ground, where we're used to that kind of Gulf of Mexico influence,

00:49 it's really the humidity that sets us over the edge.

00:52 So it's 91 for the high in Houston, 92 in a place like Dallas.

00:55 Even as you look towards Odessa, for example, we're in the triple digits.

00:59 That's the actual air temperature.

01:01 Again, once we have humidity, which we often do, especially in southeastern Texas, it's going to feel a lot worse than that.

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