{"id":65213,"date":"2025-11-26T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65213\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:22:28","slug":"houston-tornado-nws-confirms-2-twister-touchdowns-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65213\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston tornado: NWS confirms 2 twister touchdowns on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; The National Weather Service has released their damage survey following Monday&#8217;s severe weather in the Houston area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Houston tornado: National Weather Service confirms two tornado touchdowns on Monday <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the report, one tornado touched down in Riata Ranch subdivision, near Cypress, and the other touched down in Klein.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Riata Ranch tornado <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the report, the tornado in Riata Ranch was rated at an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with estimated peak winds of 105 miles per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The tornado touched down around 1:23 p.m. Monday afternoon about seven miles west-northwest of Jersey Village and ended about five minutes later near the same location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The path length of the tornado was 2.61 miles with a width of 500 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rr-tornado-map.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Path map of tornado that touched down in Riata Ranch subdivision (Source: NWS\/NOAA) <\/p>\n<p>  Klein tornado <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the report, the tornado in Klein was rated at an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with estimated peak winds of 115 miles per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The tornado touched down around 1:41 p.m. Monday afternoon about seven miles south-southeast of Tomball and ended about seven minutes later about file miles east-southeast of Tomball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officials said the path of the tornado was 3.83 miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The path width is pending further analysis, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/klein-tornado-path-map.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Path map of tornado that touched down in Klein (Source: NWS\/NOAA) <\/p>\n<p>  What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale? <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF0 &#8211; 65 to 85 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF1 &#8211; 86 to 110 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF2 &#8211; 111 to 135 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF3 &#8211; 136 to 165 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF4 &#8211; 166 to 200 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">EF5 &#8211; Over 200 mph\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: National Weather Service damage survey report.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/tomball\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomball<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/cypress\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cypress<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The National Weather Service has released their damage survey following Monday&#8217;s severe weather in the Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2624,405,56,58,57,223,33933,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-65213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-cypress","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tomball","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}