{"id":195343,"date":"2026-03-08T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:11:08","slug":"national-weather-service-issues-hail-alert-for-parts-of-houston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195343\/","title":{"rendered":"National Weather Service issues hail alert for parts of Houston area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wind gusts of up to 40 mph and penny-size hail could pummel parts of the Houston area Saturday evening, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect until 11p.m. for a wide swath of southern Texas, just west of Houston, with ping pong ball-size hail, frequent lightning and wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour possible, NWS said. NWS had\u00a0issued special weather statements for\u00a0Atascocita, Spring,\u00a0Aldine, West Livingston, Cleveland and Shepherd\u00a0until 6:00 PM, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/2030425922294157582\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 4,000 CenterPoint Energy customers were without service as of 5:45 p.m. and the company was working to restore power, CenterPoint\u00a0said in a statement. CenterPoint serves about 2.9 million customers in the Greater Houston area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/weather-houston-hail-thunderstorm-21961863.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service issues hail alert for parts of Houston area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">National Weather Service issues hail alert for parts of Houston area<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wind gusts of up to 40 mph and penny-size hail could pummel parts of the Houston area Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,2873,3747,58,57,1971,11800,9145],"class_list":{"0":"post-195343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-area","10":"tag-houston-chronicle","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-national-weather-service","14":"tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","15":"tag-wind-gusts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195343","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=195343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}