{"id":235776,"date":"2026-04-05T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:55:07","slug":"lightning-flashes-across-sky-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235776\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Flashes Across Sky in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning shot across the sky in Graford, Texas, on Friday, April 3, as the National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2040021744522592433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;warned&quot;}\" class=\"link \">warned<\/a> of widespread storms and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage, captured by Chad Casey, shows lightning flash and spider across the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2040021744522592433\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> widespread storms were expected through Saturday, with heavy rain and flash flooding forecast for Graford and nearby areas. Credit: Chad Casey via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning shot across the sky in Graford, Texas, on Friday, April 3, as the National Weather Service (NWS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58278,13365,90888,1971,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-235776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-chad-casey","9":"tag-flash-flooding","10":"tag-graford","11":"tag-national-weather-service","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235776","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=235776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}