Cold Front Moves Through North Texas, Bringing Damaging Winds and Large Hail

A cold front was expected to start moving through North Texas Sunday afternoon before rushing southward, with a line of thunderstorms developing as it reached South Texas later in the night.

“Snow in abundance, freezing rain and icy gusts… A historic winter storm has been hitting the United States since this Saturday”

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The San Antonio Express-News forecast said damaging wind gusts up to 75 mph were the primary threat, while isolated large hail was also possible, and San Antonio was under a level 2 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms.

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To the north, the same forecast described a level 3 risk of severe weather issued for Dallas, Waco, San Angelo, and parts of the northern Hill Country, with storms likely in the Dallas area as early as 4 p.m. and moving into the northern Hill Country by 8 p.m.

The Weather Channel said the threat then shifted to the Southern Plains and increased to very large hail, strong wind gusts and even a strong tornado possible in cities like Dallas/Fort Worth, Waco and Abilene, Texas.

In Central Texas, KXXV said thunderstorms would likely begin around I-20 between Abilene and Fort Worth around 3pm and mainly affect the area from 5pm to midnight Sunday, with large hail and high winds as the likely threats.

Chron said Houston could be spared from major storms on Mother's Day, but noted the National Weather Service in Houston shared that isolated storms would linger briefly heading into Mother's Day while a cold front loomed that could bring low temperatures into the high 60s throughout the week.

Chron quoted Space City Weather’s Eric Berger saying it should be clear skies and "a warm to hot day in the upper 80s for the region."

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KXXV framed the Mother’s Day severe weather timing by saying storms would move southeastward towards all of Central Texas and mainly affect the area from 5pm to midnight Sunday.

KXXV also said the tornado risk was very low for this event, adding that "supercell thunderstorms will be hard-pressed to exist" because upper air winds were so light and wind sheer so low.

In Texas Storm Chasers’ outlook, storms were described as likely across several regions of Texas on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, 2026, with large to very large hail and damaging straight-line winds listed among the main threats.

Across the broader forecast, the San Antonio Express-News said the cold front would only result in a subtle drop in temperatures on Monday, with morning lows in the upper 60s and afternoon highs in the low to mid-80s.

“Even if the Greater Houston area might be spared from major storms on Mother's Day, that doesn't mean Houston is out of a chaotic weather pattern yet”

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The same forecast warned that while activity was likely to move through relatively quickly and leave mostly dry conditions by 2 a.m. early Monday, "a quick inch of rain is possible, which may lead to isolated street flooding."

For the longer horizon, San Antonio Express-News said long-range models suggested the next decent rain chance would not arrive until at least the May 17-19 timeframe, and that throughout the week there was no significant chance of rain.

In a separate severe-weather framing, Texas Storm Chasers said storms could bring damaging straight-line winds of 60 to 70 mph and localized hurricane-force wind gusts over 75 to 85 mph in the strongest storms.

The Weather Channel’s Mother’s Day weekend outlook also emphasized that tornadoes were possible alongside large hail and damaging wind, describing the threat across the Central US as shifting from the Central Plains to the Southern Plains.