More severe storms and heavy rain are expected to bring multiple days of weather mischief to Texas over the next week. Another round of dangerous severe storms will occur this afternoon and evening across West Texas, potentially impacting the same areas that were hard hit on Thursday. Giant hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes are possible. Today’s tornado threat is not as potent as yesterday, but it still exists. Flash flooding from heavy rain will pose an equally dangerous risk.
Saturday may be a less active day, though a few severe storms could develop across the northern third of Texas and in the Trans-Pecos.
Sunday has the potential to bring significant weather impacts from severe storms in the Texas Panhandle, West Texas, Northwest Texas, Big Country, Texoma, and North Texas. Scattered severe storms will develop in the afternoon hours on Sunday in the Panhandle and West Texas, bringing very large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain, and possibly a tornado.
Storms will grow into a large cluster or line that moves southeast Sunday night into Northwest Texas, Big Country, Texoma, and North Texas. Widespread, damaging to destructive wind gusts of 60 to 90 MPH are expected along with hail. Spin-up tornadoes will also be a concern. Storms are likely to persist all night and move into North Texas and Northeast Texas Monday morning.
Next week’s weather looks active across much of Texas with near daily chances of thunderstorms. We may finally transition out of a more springtime ‘severe storm’ pattern toward more of a summer-time heavy rain risk. We’ll continue to monitor.