Five Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were active Saturday morning across Texas and Louisiana, with storms threatening a corridor that stretches from the Houston metropolitan area on the Gulf Coast to the state’s northeastern corner near the Louisiana line, the National Weather Service reported.
The warnings — issued by NWS offices in Houston, Shreveport, and Fort Worth — carry hazards of 60 mph wind gusts and penny-size hail, conditions the agency says are sufficient to damage roofs, siding, and trees. Continuous cloud-to-ground lightning accompanies the storms.
Houston Metro
A severe thunderstorm was located over northeastern Missouri City at 5:27 AM CDT, tracking northeast at 35 mph. Harris, Fort Bend, and Brazoria counties are under warning, with communities specifically cited by the NWS including northwestern Pearland, Sugar Land, Missouri City, Stafford, Rosenberg, Meadows Place, and Fresno. Houston weather will face the storm’s leading edge through the early morning hours.
Northeastern Texas
The NWS office in Shreveport issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning valid until 6:30 AM CDT for five counties in northeastern Texas: Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, and Titus. Severe thunderstorms were tracking through that corridor as of 5:25 AM CDT.
A second cluster of counties in the region — Cherokee, Smith, Upshur, and Wood — also falls under active warnings, underscoring the breadth of the convective line pushing through northeastern Texas.
North Central Texas
The NWS Fort Worth office issued a separate Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Hopkins County, northern Delta County, and southern Lamar County, valid until 6:15 AM CDT. At 5:14 AM CDT, storms were positioned along a line extending from near Roxton to approximately six miles southeast of Cooper Lake State Park.
What to Do
The NWS advises residents in all warned areas to move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building, stay away from windows, and remain inside a well-built structure until warnings expire. In an early morning outbreak — when many residents are still asleep — automated mobile alerts are especially critical for ensuring adequate response time.
The geographic span of Saturday’s warnings, from coastal Brazoria County on the upper Texas Gulf Coast to the Red River Valley on the Oklahoma border, reflects an organized squall line moving through multiple NWS forecast zones simultaneously rather than isolated storm cells. Five active warnings across two states at the same time signals a broad, coordinated convective event that forecasters across three regional offices are monitoring concurrently.