{"id":165080,"date":"2026-02-14T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:36:13","slug":"storms-intensifying-toward-houston-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165080\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms Intensifying Toward Houston & East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Storms continue moving east across Texas this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in parts of North Texas, including areas near Sherman and DFW, where several inches of rain have fallen.<\/p>\n

The line of storms is now pushing into East Texas and the Brazos Valley. As it moves into Southeast Texas this evening, storms may strengthen.<\/p>\n

Possible threats include:
\u2022 Damaging wind gusts over 60 mph
\u2022 Hail
\u2022 Heavy rain
\u2022 A few brief tornadoes<\/p>\n

A tornado watch may be issued later for parts of Southeast and East Texas.<\/p>\n

Houston timing: roughly 6\u20138 PM
Beaumont: 7\u20139 PM
East Texas: through about 9 PM<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll continue live updates throughout the afternoon.
\ud83d\udce1 Live coverage: https:\/\/texasstormchasers.com\/live<\/a>
\ud83c\udf27\ufe0f Interactive radar: https:\/\/texasstormchasers.com\/radar<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the links to our website & radar, live-saving tornado alert phone calls, photo gallery, donations\/store, and other social media: https:\/\/www.Linktr.ee\/texasstormchasers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storms continue moving east across Texas this afternoon. Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in parts of North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12219,12224,12234,12235,12248,4544,56,58,57,12297,430,12300,12301,9208,4375,12328,12337,12346,12359,12363,12365,12367,172,12380,12381,443,12384,12388,12391,12397,12398,9181],"class_list":{"0":"post-165080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arctic-blast","9":"tag-austin-weather","10":"tag-cold-blast","11":"tag-colder-weather","12":"tag-dfw-weather","13":"tag-extreme-weather","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-live-weather","18":"tag-north-texas","19":"tag-north-texas-snow-storm","20":"tag-north-texas-weather","21":"tag-severe-storms","22":"tag-severe-weather","23":"tag-snow-storm","24":"tag-stormy-weather","25":"tag-texas-storm-chasers","26":"tag-the-weather-channel","27":"tag-tornado","28":"tag-tornado-tonight","29":"tag-tornadoes","30":"tag-weather","31":"tag-weather-channel","32":"tag-weather-channel-live","33":"tag-weather-forecast","34":"tag-weather-forecasting","35":"tag-weather-report","36":"tag-weather-update-today","37":"tag-winter-forecast","38":"tag-winter-storm","39":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165080","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=165080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}