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A derecho, a long-lived line of damaging straight-line wind, crossed the Houston area on the evening of May 16, 2024. Across the metro, the highest measured gust was 78 mph in the Highlands area of east Harris County, and National Weather Service surveys estimated winds near 100 mph in parts of downtown, as reported by FOX Weather. The death toll was later put at eight, per the Houston Chronicle, and more than a million customers lost power.
In Cypress, the National Weather Service Houston/Galveston office surveyed two EF1 tornadoes in southern Cypress:
| Tornado | Track | Width | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeland, along Longhorn Point Drive | About half a mile | About 75 yards | Peak winds near 110 mph; four homes severely damaged, per KPRC 2’s August 13, 2024 report on the NWS finding |
| Farther east, toward Barker Cypress Road | 1.44 miles | About 100 yards | Occurred a few minutes later; numerous homes with roof damage and broken windows in the NWS survey summary |
Houses in those paths were overwhelmingly production homes built since the mid-2000s. Straight-line wind around the tornadoes reached far more roofs than the tracks themselves. Bridgeland
Beryl made landfall near Matagorda at 3:40 a.m. Central time on July 8, 2024 as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center’s Tropical Cyclone Report (AL022024). The nearest station to Cypress listed in that report, David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, recorded a gust of 72 knots, about 83 mph, in a record the report marks as incomplete, so the true peak may have been higher. Houston Intercontinental also recorded 72 knots.
No Cypress-specific damage tally has been published. What Beryl did to any single roof is a question for a roof check, not a statistic.
From National Weather Service local storm reports, as compiled by a public hail-report archive: 1.5-inch hail in the Cypress area on December 24, 2024, which KPRC 2 described as golf-ball size; 1.25-inch hail on March 21, 2024; and 2.0-inch reports on June 23, 2023, about six to eight miles away. On April 5, 2023, 2.0-inch hail fell along the I-10 corridor near Fry Road, south of Cypress. These are spotter reports; check NOAA’s Storm Events Database for your date and street. Hail damage assessment
Bridgeland’s first homes sold in 2006; Towne Lake began development the same year. A roof put on in either community since then has had at most two decades of sun and, in 2024 alone, a derecho with tornadoes and a hurricane. Wind and hail do not check the build date. The wind damage roof check is built for exactly that roof.
Tell the contractor your community and the storms you remember. That points the roof check at the right slopes.
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