Flood — Hidalgo, Texas

2025-06-12 · near Shayland, Hidalgo, Texas

Event narrative

The San Antonio Express-News reported, via video reports on social media, urban flooding with water depths up to 2 feet in streets across portions of the McAllen metropolitan region during the early to mid evening. Rainfall totals ranged from 2.5 to nearly 3 inches, much which fell within 90 to 120 minutes.

Damage to vehicles was unknown, though several had water levels halfway to two-thirds the way up their tire heights.

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 1278829. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.