{"id":232517,"date":"2026-04-02T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232517\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:51:13","slug":"texas-weather-ef-0-tornado-reported-near-giddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232517\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas weather: EF-0 tornado reported near Giddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/xjrcdqku80mx9bkz.jpg\" alt=\"Storm in Giddings, Texas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/fmc-v7l8f7wza9uduc1t\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storm in Giddings, Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Severe weather impacted parts of Central Texas on Thursday, including Giddings in Lee County. Mey Ug shared this video with FOX 7 Austin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">GIDDINGS, Texas &#8211; An EF-0 tornado was reported near Giddings on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the National Weather Service, on April 2, around 10:55 a.m., the tornado formed about six miles southwest of Giddings, near CR 208 and FM 2239. It then moved northeast into Giddings before dissipating.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The tornado had winds of 70 mph and traveled about eight miles.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The NWS said there was damage found to power lines, tree limbs, tin sheds, and some small sections of tin roofs and eaves peeled back.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Giddings Intermediate School, Giddings Middle School, and Giddings High School were all briefly without power due to an outage in the northern part of Giddings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Power has since been restored, and the rest of the day resumed on a normal schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the National Weather Service and the Lee County Officer of Emergency Management<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/lee-county\/giddings\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giddings<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm in Giddings, Texas Severe weather impacted parts of Central Texas on Thursday, including Giddings in Lee County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41770,38514,223,4375,27,29,28,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-232517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-giddings","9":"tag-lee-county","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-severe-weather","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232517","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=232517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}