{"id":164560,"date":"2026-02-14T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:45:16","slug":"lightning-flashes-over-western-texas-as-stormy-weather-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164560\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Flashes Over Western Texas as Stormy Weather Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning flashed in the sky over Scurry County, Texas, as thunderstorms <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMidland\/status\/2022390608359494017\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:swept through the area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">swept through the area<\/a> on Friday evening, February 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage posted to X by user @AnnHd04 shows multiple lightning flashes in the stormy sky on Friday night. She said the video was captured looking west from Scurry County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMidland\/status\/2022390608359494017\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> the storms\u2019 main threats were hail and heavy rainfall, which could lead to localized flash flooding. Credit: @AnnHd04 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning flashed in the sky over Scurry County, Texas, as thunderstorms swept through the area on Friday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13365,11459,67139,27,29,28,58279,11454],"class_list":{"0":"post-164560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-flash-flooding","9":"tag-scurry-county","10":"tag-stormy-sky","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-the-national-weather-service","15":"tag-thunderstorms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}