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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2025, 1:13 PM CDT for Brazos County, Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 6, 2025, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2025, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brazos County, TX, Madison County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 6, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
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 6, 6:59 AM CDT, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:59 AM CDT, 6 hours 14 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 6, 12:51 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1251 PM CDT Tue May 6 2025
TXZ195-061815-
Burleson TX-
1251 PM CDT Tue May 6 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN BURLESON COUNTY
THROUGH 115 PM CDT...
At 1249 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms over
Tanglewood, or 7 miles northeast of Lexington, moving northeast at
40 mph. If these storms move into Burleson County, damaging wind
gusts and hail would be possible. These cells are being monitored
closely in case they strengthen further.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Caldwell and Chriesman.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 400 PM CDT for southeastern
Texas.
&&
LAT...LON 3071 9667 3056 9656 3043 9686 3044 9687
3046 9688 3046 9690 3047 9691 3049 9690
3050 9691 3051 9690 3054 9692 3054 9694
3056 9696
TIME...MOT...LOC 1749Z 240DEG 49KT 3052 9695
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
SelfThe office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Madison | 29 min |
| May 6, 12:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 24 min |
| May 6, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 25 min |
| May 6, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston | 36 min |
| May 6, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Houston, Madison, Walker | 46 min |
| May 6, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 27 min |
| May 6, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Madison | 25 min |
| May 6, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity, Walker | 24 min |
| May 6, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 32 min |
| May 6, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 19 min |
| May 6, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Trinity | 34 min |
| May 6, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 30 min |
| May 6, 2:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 38 min |
| May 6, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Washington | 28 min |
| May 6, 3:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 59 min |
| May 6, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 31 min |
| May 6, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Washington | 38 min |
| May 6, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Grimes, Walker, Washington | 31 min |
| May 6, 4:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 6, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Washington | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 37 min |
| May 6, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 26 min |
| May 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 11 min |
| May 6, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Grimes | 37 min |
| May 6, 5:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 6, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Colorado | 32 min |
| May 6, 6:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Washington | 32 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.