Damage reported after powerful winds, softball-sized hail pummel Texas, Louisiana
A multiday severe weather and flash flood event continued on Tuesday, with millions of people across Texas and Louisiana seeing strong to severe storms with damaging hail and life-threatening flooding.
Multiday severe weather, flooding threat continues after damaging storms pummel South
Damage was reported in Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as severe weather tore across the South on Tuesday, and the multiday storm and flooding threat will continue on Wednesday. FOX Weather Meteorologists Britta Merwin and Kendall Smith break down the latest forecast on May 7, 2025.
DALLAS – Damage has been reported in portions of Texas and Louisiana as severe weather tore across the region on Tuesday. Powerful storms pummeled communities with high winds and softball-sized hail.
Extreme weather has been threatening the South for days, from the southern Plains to the Gulf Coast, leaving a 10-year-old Texas girl dead after she was swept away by floodwaters.
Three others were injured after lightning struck a home in Texas, sparking a fire.
Watch: Powerful winds, torrential rain slam Texas A&M University campus
Powerful winds and torrential rain slammed the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
A dramatic video recorded in College Station, Texas, shows damaging winds and torrential rain slamming the Texas A&M University campus on Tuesday.
The video shows winds bending trees as rain appears to be falling sideways. A person can also be seen walking outdoors through the storm.
Watch: Hail pummels Texas home during severe weather
A video shared from Garland, Texas, shows hail pummeling an outdoor seating area as severe weather tore across the region on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
Another intense video shows hail falling during a thunderstorm and slamming into a backyard in Garland, Texas, on Tuesday.
Outside of New Orleans, a severe-warned storm dropped quarter- to golf ball-sized hail in New Iberia. Meteorologists said hail that large could injure people and animals, as well as damage cars and houses.
According to storm reports from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC), softball-sized hail was reported in the city of San Ygnacio, Texas.
Structural damage was reported outside of Waco, Texas, where several trees were down and roofs were damaged.
Storm damage in Jewett, Texas, on 5/6/2025.
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In rural North Texas, damage was reported to wind turbines and a nearby airport after a severe thunderstorm rolled through.
According to meteorologists, most of the damage in the Lone Star State appeared to be straight-line winds and not associated with a tornado.
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The SPC reported a wind gust of 71 mph was reported near Mandeville, Louisiana, on Tuesday, and trees were snapped along Woolworth Road south of Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle School near the community of Greenwood, Louisiana, from an apparent tornado.