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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX  
454 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2025  
 
...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 05/08/2025 THUNDERSTORM WIND EVENT IN NORTH  
MCALLEN, TEXAS...  
   
OVERVIEW  
DURING THE EARLY EVENING OF MAY 8, 2025, A MICROBURST  
DESCENDED FROM A SEVERE HAIL-PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM AND CAUSED  
SCATTERED STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO ROOFS, CARPORTS, FENCES, AND POWER  
POLES...AS WELL AS TREES. THE BRIEF MICROBURST WAS ACCOMPANIED BY  
HAIL AND BLINDING RAIN. THERE WERE NO KNOWN CASUALTIES.  
 
.THUNDERSTORM WIND 1 ..  
 
PEAK WIND /ESTIMATED/: 80-85 MPH  
PATH LENGTH: 1.33 MILES  
PATH WIDTH: 2235 YARDS  
FATALITIES: 0  
INJURIES: 0  
 
START DATE: MAY_08_2025  
START TIME: 701 PM CDT  
START LOCATION: 8.92 NNW MCALLEN/HIDALGO/TX  
START LAT/LON: 26.3269/-98.2537  
 
END DATE: MAY_08_2025  
END TIME: 704 PM CDT  
END LOCATION: 7.59 NNW MCALLEN/HIDALGO/TX  
END LAT/LON: 26.3117/-98.2437  
 
SUMMARY: JUST AFTER 7 PM CDT MAY 8, 2025, A STRONG MICROBURST DESCENDED  
FROM A HAIL-PRODUCING SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH MCALLEN, NEAR THE  
CITY LINE WITH EDINBURG. DAMAGE, MAINLY TO OVER 100 LARGE MESQUITE AND  
LIVE OAK TREE LIMBS, OCCURRED BETWEEN NORTH TAYLOR ROAD AND NORTH WARE  
ROAD. ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF MILE 8 1/2 ROAD, ONE UNANCHORED  
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) WAS FLIPPED, WITH SEVERAL SECTIONS OF FENCE  
BLOWN DOWN AND SMALL PORTIONS OF THE ROOF REMOVED. ALONG WARE ROAD, ONE  
INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS LOST ITS SHEET METAL ROOF AND GARAGE.  
 
THE MOST NOTABLE DAMAGE WAS SEEN EAST OF WARE ROAD, MAINLY BETWEEN MILE 9  
ROAD AND STATE ROAD (SR) 107. IN THE EL PACIFICO NEIGHBORHOOD, ONE RESIDENCE HAD  
AN UNANCHORED RV TURNED, FLIPPED, AND ROLLED WHILE THE RESIDENCE AND SEVERAL  
MORE HAD SCATTERED FENCE AND ISOLATED ROOF DAMAGE. ONE GARAGE DOOR WAS  
BLOWN IN. BETWEEN MILE 8 1/2 ROAD AND THE SHARYLAND WATER SUPPLY CORPORATION,  
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE WAS SEEN IN THE ELDORADO AT THOUSAND OAKS APARTMENT/DUPLEX  
SUBDIVISION, WITH OTHER DAMAGE AT A NEW SUBDIVISION IMMEDIATELY NORTH. MUCH  
OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS' FENCING WAS BLOWN DOWN, SEVERAL CARPORT STANCHIONS  
WERE SNAPPED OR LIFTED, AND AT LEAST THREE HOMES HAD PARTIAL ROOF SHINGLE  
LIFT. WINDBLOWN FENCING AND CARPORT MATERIAL IMPACTED NEARBY STRUCTURES,  
SHATTERING WINDOWS AND DAMAGING STUCCO SIDING. WOODEN POWER POLES AND LIGHT  
POLES WERE LEANING TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST. A FEW WOOD-FRAMED BUILDINGS  
UNDER CONSTRUCTION WERE PARTIALLY DESTROYED, AND TWO MORE UNBRACED GARAGES  
WERE BLOWN IN. SOUTH OF SR 107, DAMAGE WAS MORE ISOLATED - MAINLY TO TREE  
LIMBS AND SOME FENCES, BUT ONE AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SHOP ALONG LA LOMITA ROAD  
HAD PART OF ITS SHEET METAL ROOF LIFTED OFF.  
 
IN ALL, SEVERAL DOZEN HOMES AND A FEW BUSINESSES HAD SOME DAMAGE, AND HUNDREDS  
OF LARGE TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH AT LEAST TEN UPROOTED.  
 
 
 
NOTE:  
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO  
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN NWS  
STORM DATA.  
 
 
 
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