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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 1, 2025Brazos County, Burleson County, Grimes County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2025, 6:16 PM CDT for Brazos County, Burleson County, Grimes County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2025, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2025, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Grimes County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 1, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 269 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report...Summary
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
459 PM CDT Thu May 1 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1035 PM     Hail             5 ENE Madisonville      30.98N 95.82W
04/30/2025  M0.25 Inch       Madison            TX   County Official

1000 PM     Hail             1 NW Grapeland          31.50N 95.50W
04/30/2025  M1.00 Inch       Houston            TX   Emergency Mngr

            Quarter sized hail west off Grapeland.

1025 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     13 WNW Lovelady         31.19N 95.65W
04/30/2025                   Houston            TX   Emergency Mngr

            Multiple trees down west of Austonio. A
            secondary roof over a trailer house was
            blown off.

1026 PM     Hail             10 W Lovelady           31.16N 95.60W
04/30/2025  E0.50 Inch       Houston            TX   Public

            Report from mPING: Half-inch (0.50 in.).

1050 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     10 E Midway             31.00N 95.58W
04/30/2025                   Houston            TX   Public

            Tree branches down, blocking roads near
            Weldon.

1100 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     4 NE Kennard            31.41N 95.14W
04/30/2025                   Houston            TX   Emergency Mngr

            One tree down blocking both lanes at FM 227
            near CR1165, north of Ratcliff.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	49 min
Apr 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	38 min
Apr 30, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Madison	44 min
Apr 30, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	44 min
Apr 30, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison	43 min
Apr 30, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Madison, Walker	31 min
Apr 30, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson, Grimes, Walker, Washington	63 min
Apr 30, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	15 min
Apr 30, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity	42 min
Apr 30, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker	39 min
Apr 30, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker	56 min
Apr 30, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	43 min
Apr 30, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Walker	51 min
May 1, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Grimes	42 min
May 1, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Grimes	39 min
May 1, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	59 min
May 1, 1:32 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda	20 hr
May 1, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos	26 min
May 1, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos	36 min
May 1, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos	25 min
May 1, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Madison	34 min
May 1, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes	31 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.