{"id":21161,"date":"2025-10-25T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21161\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:18:21","slug":"saturday-morning-storms-knock-out-power-for-more-than-100k-in-houston-area-houston-public-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21161\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning storms knock out power for more than 100K in Houston area \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/?attachment_id=534295\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-534295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NWSRadarImage.jpg\" alt=\"National Weather Service Radar Houston\" width=\"885\" height=\"745\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Weather Service<\/p>\n<p>A weather radar map of the Houston region.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area lost electricity early Saturday morning as the region was struck by strong overnight thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>Another wave of rainfall was in the forecast for later Saturday, starting in the afternoon, along with wind gusts of up to 20 mph, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hgx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CenterPoint Energy, which supplies electricity to much of the Houston area, reported more than 140,000 customers without power as of about 7:30 a.m. The <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.centerpointenergy.com\/map\/texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">number of outages<\/a> had dwindled to fewer than 70,000 by about 9 a.m., with the utility company saying it had deployed 1,300 \u201cfrontline workers\u201d in response to the storms.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston area is under a flood watch until 5 a.m. Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>A National Weather Service meteorologist on Friday told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/weather\/2025\/10\/24\/534181\/houston-weather-rain-thunderstorms-flooding-governor-greg-abbott\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Public Media<\/a> that most of the region was expected to see 2-4 inches of rainfall on Saturday, with some areas potentially getting 4-6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, the NWS Weather Prediction Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/metwatch\/metwatch_mpd_multi.php?md=1211&amp;yr=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a notice<\/a> indicating some parts of Southeast Texas could see more than 2 inches of rain per hour. Severe thunderstorm warnings for the Houston region, along with tornado warnings in some areas, also were issued during the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>Rain flooded part of Interstate 45 north of downtown Houston, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ih45n_traffic\/status\/1982024404562260473\" rel=\"nofollow\">Houston TransStar<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Showers in Houston are expected to dissipate by Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Weather Service A weather radar map of the Houston region. 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