Damaging Winds in Texas, May 10 to 11, 2026

Name: Damaging Winds in Texas, May 10 to 11, 2026
Start: 2026-05-10T23:10
End: 2026-05-11T01:07
Location: Texas

May 10 to 11, 2026 · NWS CRP · 7 events in 3 counties and zones

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 7

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.

Severe winds on this date were driven by a southeastward-moving shortwave trough that had overspread the region while a surface low over northwest Texas, an advancing cold front, and a dryline provided the focus for thunderstorm initiation. Strong daytime heating beneath steep mid-level lapse rates and a moist Gulf air mass produced moderate to strong instability, with MLCAPE values generally ranging from 2,500 to 3,500 J/kg. To our north and west, initial storms developed as supercells capable of producing very large hail, but we anticipated rapid upscale growth into a forward-propagating mesoscale convective system (MCS) and bowing line segment by the time the system reached our CWA. The combination of abundant instability, a dry mid-level air mass, and strengthening forcing aloft favored the development of a strong cold pool, allowing the convective system to accelerate south-southeastward across South Texas. As storms merged and became increasingly outflow-dominant, widespread damaging straight-line winds produced corridors of significant wind damage as the system advanced toward the Texas Coast overnight.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 5:54 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

Updated at 633 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026
Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) of severe thunderstorms across all of South Texas and a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 4) of flash flooding across the Brush Country tonight
Seasonal temperatures will drier conditions this week in the wake of the front

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 5:54 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
654 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

...New AVIATION...

.KEY MESSAGES...
Updated at 633 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

- Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) of severe thunderstorms across all of
  South Texas and a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 4) of flash flooding
  across the Brush Country tonight

- Seasonal temperatures will drier conditions this week in the
  wake of the front

&&

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 203 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

As a cold front approaches the region tonight, showers and
thunderstorms are expected to develop ahead and along the front. Due
to a favorable environment for severe weather, if a storm is able to
develop it will have a good chance of becoming severe. The main
threats with any storm that becomes severe will be damaging winds
and hail. Heavy rain will also be possible within the most mature
thunderstorms or areas that experience training. As of this moment,
the best chances for that will be across the Brush Country, with the
possibility of seeing up to 2.5" of rain.

Monday and Tuesday will be relatively cool with highs in the 80s and
lows in the 60s with seasonal temperatures returning mid-week and
hanging through the weekend. Rain chances will quickly taper off
Monday with drier weather expected through this week with rain
chances below 10%.

&&

.AVIATION...
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 633 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

VFR conditions are expected to persist for the next few hours
before MVFR CIGs begin to filter in for our easternmost terminals
around 02-03Z or so. A line of strong to severe thunderstorms
associated with a cold front is forecast to push from northwest to
southeast across all terminals overnight, beginning as early as
03Z for our northernmost counties, before moving offshore a couple
hours before sunrise. Most of the convective allowing models show
the line of storms taking on a bowing structure, increasing
confidence for the potential for strong wind gusts of 35 knots or
greater. Lower confidence exists for any hail potential, but it
cannot be entirely ruled out with stronger storms. Additionally,
any storms and heavier rain showers through the overnight hours
will be capable of briefly reducing VSBYs down to as low as
IFR/LIFR levels. Low level wind shear could be possible across all
sites with the frontal passage, but due to low confidence at this
time did not include in the TAFs. Expect quick improvement
following the frontal passage, with conditions lifting back to VFR
and winds shifting the the north-northeast.

&&

.MARINE...
Issued at 203 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

A gentle (BF 3) southeast wind will shift to the northeast Sunday
night and strengthening to moderate levels (BF 4) in the wake of the
front. Winds are expected to relax to a gentle breeze by Monday
night and continue through mid-week. Showers and thunderstorms are
expected tonight ahead and along the cold front with the possibility
of severe thunderstorms with strong winds and hail as the primary
threats. Drier conditions are expected Monday afternoon through mid-
week.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Corpus Christi    74  86  71  85 /  50  10   0   0
Victoria          70  86  67  87 /  50  10   0   0
Laredo            73  87  71  89 /  80  20   0   0
Alice             73  87  69  88 /  50  10   0   0
Rockport          75  88  72  86 /  50  10   0   0
Cotulla           71  86  68  89 /  60  10   0   0
Kingsville        73  86  70  86 /  40  20   0   0
Navy Corpus       76  84  74  82 /  50  10   0   0

&&

.CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...None.
GM...None.
&&

DISCUSSION...JCP/84
AVIATION...KRS/98

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 10:59 PM CST, 11 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1159 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

TXZ229>234-239>241-243-244-246-247-110600-
Inland Calhoun TX-Webb TX-La Salle TX-Live Oak TX-Jim Wells TX-
Inland Nueces TX-Inland San Patricio TX-McMullen TX-Victoria TX-
Bee TX-Inland Refugio TX-Duval TX-Goliad TX-
1159 PM CDT Sun May 10 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...NORTHERN
DUVAL...WESTERN SAN PATRICIO...LA SALLE...WEBB...VICTORIA...NORTHERN
JIM WELLS...REFUGIO...BEE...NORTHWESTERN NUECES...MCMULLEN...GOLIAD
AND LIVE OAK COUNTIES THROUGH 100 AM CDT...

At 1158 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 7 miles south of Cuero to 6 miles north of
Tulsita to near George West to near Loma Alta to near Gilson Groves
to 24 miles west of Chupadera Ranch Airport. Movement was southeast
at 50 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 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...
Laredo, Victoria, Alice, Beeville, Sinton, Mathis, San Diego,
Cotulla, Refugio, Freer, George West, Goliad, Three Rivers,
Woodsboro, Encinal, Tilden, Skidmore, McFaddin, Choke Canyon, and
Guadalupe.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 35 between mile markers 11 and 67.
 Interstate 37 between mile markers 19 and 83.
 US Highway 281 between mile markers 618 and 676.
 US Highway 181 between mile markers 572 and 622.
 US Highway 183 between mile markers 628 and 668.
 US Highway 59 between mile markers 622 and 804.
 US Highway 77 between mile markers 560 and 650.
 US Highway 83 between mile markers 668 and 698.
 US Highway 87 between mile markers 798 and 832.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
south central and south Texas.

&&

LAT...LON 2902 9683 2872 9665 2848 9685 2771 9794
      2764 9966 2780 9988 2798 9993 2815 10008
      2819 10020 2820 9940 2843 9939 2851 9844
      2879 9810 2869 9801 2872 9792 2867 9778
      2892 9743 2887 9730 2910 9698
TIME...MOT...LOC 0458Z 315DEG 45KT 2900 9732 2873 9779 2838 9805 2814
9847 2823 9974 2808 10046

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

AE

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:09 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bee

When: May 10, 11:10 PM CST
Where: Bee County, 4.99 mi SSE of Pawnee
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 28.580, -97.980

Mesonet Station TW102 at Pawnee Ranch.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bee

When: May 10, 11:30 PM CST
Where: Bee County, Beeville
Measured: 74 kt (85 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 28.400, -97.750

Damage to power poles and numerous trees down within the city and county.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nueces

When: May 11, 12:56 AM CST
Where: Nueces County, 0.92 mi SW of (Ngp)nas Corpus Chri
Measured: 78 kt (90 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: Broadcast Media
Coordinates: 27.680, -97.300

Photos of damage to apartment buildings with siding ripped off the side.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nueces

When: May 11, 12:56 AM CST
Where: Nueces County, 1.51 mi NNE of Laguna Vista
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 27.640, -97.290

Mesonet station XLAG at Laguna Shores.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nueces

When: May 11, 12:56 AM CST
Where: Nueces County, 0.92 mi NE of Flour Bluff
Measured: 73 kt (84 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 27.680, -97.270

KNGP at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station.

Thunderstorm Wind, Aransas

When: May 11, 1:04 AM CST
Where: Aransas County, 0.92 mi SW of Aransas County Airport
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 28.080, -97.050

Station KRKP in Rockport reported gusts up to 59 mph.

Thunderstorm Wind, Nueces

When: May 11, 1:07 AM CST
Where: Nueces County, 0.61 mi E of (Ngp)nas Corpus Chri
Measured: 73 kt (84 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 27.690, -97.280

AWOS station KNGP at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station reported gusts up to 84 mph.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1332409, 1332411, 1332414, 1332415, 1332418, 1332427, 1332429.