Some of the tornadoes that hit the Houston area on Saturday were actually pretty powerful, with winds that may have pounded the area at up to 165 miles per hour.
The National Weather Service's official report on the twisters released on Sunday says the tornado that hit the Porter Heights area of East Montgomery County on Saturday afternoon was an "EF-3" on the scale used to estimate how powerful the winds accompanying a tornado could be.
The measurement standard is known as the "Enhanced Fujita Scale," which measures lightest tornado winds between 65 and 85 miles per hour as an EF-0 (zero) all the way up to an EF-5, in which gusts could reach over 200 miles an hour.
At an EF-3, the Montgomery County tornado likely had winds between 136 and 165 miles per hour.
The Weather Service report also says a tornado east of the Houston area in Chambers County was also an EF-3, resulting in what the scale calls "damaging winds" up to 165 mph. That tornado was said to have been located at Highway 124 not far from FM 1941
And a twister in Brazoria County that may have been responsible for one death is calculated by the Weather Service to have been an EF-2, with some damage resulting from winds between 111 and 135 miles an hour.
A tornado spotted in Galveston County resulted in damage in the Dickinson area south of Houston, but it was an EF-1 with winds topping out at 110 miles an hour, the report said.
The Weather Service also estimated that the Brazoria County tornado likely tore a path of destruction for just under 9 miles, while the Dickinson-area tornado only touched down for about 250 yards.