PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1106 AM CDT TUE MAR 13 2007 ...YESTERDAY MORNING`S THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY CREW DETERMINED ALL OF MONDAY MORNING`S DAMAGE TO CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE FOLLOWING SPECIFICS COME FROM THIS SURVEY. PIPER`S CROSSING APARTMENTS IN SOUTHWEST HOUSTON WAS DAMAGED BY APPROXIMATELY 75 TO 95 MPH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ORIGINATING FROM A LINE OF FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS RACING OUT AHEAD OF A MAIN SQUALL LINE. IN COLORADO COUNTY...WEIMAR`S DAMAGE WAS SIMILAR TO A DOWN BURST MOST LIKELY ORIGINATING FROM A LINE OF FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. WIND SPEEDS ARE APPROXIMATED AT BETWEEN 50 TO 60 MPH IN RELATION TO THE MINOR DAMAGE...TO AROUND 100 MPH FOR THE TREE DAMAGE. WHARTON COUNTY`S DAMAGE OCCURRED TO SEVERAL SMALLER...DECAYING SHEDS AND ONE LARGER SHED...WITH MINOR DAMAGE TO A BALL PARK. THE SHED DAMAGE WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WITH DAMAGE CONSISTENT OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS FROM A DOWNBURST ORIGINATING FROM A FAST MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OUTRACING THE MAIN SQUALL LINE. DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED IN NEEDVILLE IN FORT BEND COUNTY TO A BARN ROOF COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY EITHER A WEAK TORNADO OR STRAIGHT LINE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. THIS DAMAGE WAS NOT SURVEYED.