Texas Cyclone, Wooden roller coaster in Houston, Texas, United States

Texas Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston, built from an open lattice of light-colored wooden beams with dense diagonal cross-bracing at its base. Its track rose into a tall, steep hill and descended a long slope on the right; three flags stood at the highest crest. The 93-foot-tall, 3,180-foot-long ride ran two minutes and fifteen seconds.

AstroWorld first tried to buy and move the Coney Island Cyclone, then hired William Cobb to design a mirror image instead. Frontier Construction Company built it, but a tropical storm damaged the north end turnaround and delayed the opening to June 12, 1976. In 1979 the first turn was lowered by two feet to prevent stalling in high winds. The ride closed with the park on October 30, 2005, and was demolished on March 9, 2006.

The coaster's name and design referred directly to the Coney Island Cyclone, and its mirror-image layout made it a talking point among enthusiasts. Its trains had six cars seating four riders each, two rows of two. A section of track was later sent to the National Roller Coaster Museum in Texas.

The coaster stood at Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston and ran until the park's last day, October 30, 2005. Its trains held six cars with four riders each, two rows of two, so capacity was doubled by running two trains at once. The 1979 lowering of the first turn by two feet let it keep operating in higher winds.

The Texas Cyclone was demolished on March 9, 2006, and its trains were shipped to La Ronde in Montreal, where they now run in the middle of Le Monstre. A removed section of track went to the National Roller Coaster Museum in Texas, where it is stored.