Thunderstorm Wind — Hidalgo, Texas

2025-06-12 · near San Carlos, Hidalgo, Texas

Event narrative

Just after 740 PM CDT on June 12, 2025, a strong microburst descended from a severe thunderstorm in North Alamo, near the city line with Muniz, causing damage to traffic lights, a stand alone tower, powerlines/poles, fences and trees as well as ripped off the roof of a house, flipped a trailer and dislocated a metal structure. Altogether, the damage locations were along a northwest to southeast oriented line with six of the seven surveyed locations north of Expressway 83/east of Interstate 69C (beginning near the Muniz/North Alamo city line) and the 7th spot of Expressway 83 in Donna. For most of the damage path, estimated wind speeds ranged from 75 to 85 mph.

Detailed damage along the track included:

*Partial collapse of a single family home under construction at El Dora Road near N. Tower Road in north Alama (65 mph)

*Blown roof off of a single family poorly constructed home along Roman Circle, just north of Owassa Road in Muniz (sheet metal, manufactured-style) (80 mph)

*A metal structure thrown an unknown distance from a farm, landing along Val Verde Road in north Alamo (78 mph)

*Damaged traffic lights next to a collapsed building along El Dora Road in north Donna (70 mph)

*Fifteen power poles were blown down in a row along El Dora Road near N. Val Verde Road in north Donna (80 to 85 mph)

*Downed fence and a flipped trailer along Wood Ave. in Donna (80 mph).

*Flipped trailer blown onto Val Verde road near Donna North High School, which included minor fence damage. This was also near the report of the bent free-standing tower (80 to 85 mph)

The most notable damage was to a metal stand alone tower nearby the Donna North High School, which was bent perpendicular to the tower's base and rated at 90 mph.

Wider weather episode

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms developed over Corpus Christi area from a weak shortwave trough and shifted southward into Deep South Texas. As the storms ran into very unstable air across the Rio Grande Valley, they formed into a cluster and become locally severe. Several microbursts and some hail (unknown size) were generated from the cluster, including a several-mile track between North Alamo and Donna/Weslaco, on June 12th, 2025.

The microburst resulted in isolated to scattered structural damage to roofs, traffic lights, fences, trailers, power poles, as well as trees. There were no known injuries. Two to potentially three inches of rain in the McAllen metropolitan area resulted in urban flooding for around 2 hours there.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1277250. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.