Severe Thunderstorms Sweep Through Houston and Southeastern Texas
Over 250,000 customers lost power Saturday morning as severe weather swept through Houston and southeastern Texas, with more strong thunderstorms and flooding possible through the day. The weekend got off to a rocky start in parts of southeastern Texas as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through early Saturday morning, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
In addition to torrential rains and skies full of lightning, wind gusts reached 45-60 mph across the Houston metro area, with a gust of 59 mph measured in Downtown Houston and a 64 mph gust in Hempstead, according to the National Weather Service. A three-hour radar loop shows the severity of the storms, with yellow shaded areas denoting a Severe Thunderstorm Watch and red shaded areas denoting a Tornado Watch.
About 260,000 were without power as dawn broke on Saturday across southeastern Texas, according to PowerOutage.com, with over 150,000 of those outages in the Houston area. Earlier in the night, severe thunderstorms blasted the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area with gusts as high as 67 mph in the Fort Worth area.
Tree damage in Fort Worth, Texas on Oct. 25, 2025.
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Flood Watches and Severe Weather Risks
Radar indicated a possible tornado south of Fort Worth on Friday evening. The NWS Fort Worth office sent a storm survey team to investigate whether a tornado touched down and ruled that the observed damage “was sporadic” and “more consistent with straight-line winds up to 85 mph.” According to the NWS survey, the team identified a number of locations that suffered from tree and light structural damage across central and south central Fort Worth.
Local fire departments reported six houses caught fire in the predawn hours Friday in Dallas and Denton County as the storms rolled through. While the causes of the fires were still under investigation, fire officials did confirm lightning as the cause of some of the fires.
Dallas Metroplex Radar loop on morning of Oct. 24, 2025.
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Ongoing Weather Threats
Overall through the day, storms dropped 3.10 inches of rain at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, setting a daily rainfall record and notching its third-wettest October day in 25 years. Flood Watches remain posted through Saturday, with lingering storms and heavy rains set to plague the area. Severe weather is a lingering concern throughout the day as a second round of severe weather energizes later Saturday.
Heavy rains soak a Houston interstate on Oct. 25, 2025.
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