with chances rising to 50% by Friday<\/a>. Some thunder and gusty winds will be possible, but widespread severe weather is unlikely.<\/p>\nArticle continues below this ad<\/p>\n
Saturday: This is when the severe storm threat begins to increase. Storms are expected to develop first in West Texas, with the Storm Prediction Center concerned about an area that includes Midland-Odessa, Abilene, San Angelo, Lubbock, and Amarillo. Large hail will likely be the biggest threat Saturday afternoon, with a few tornadoes also possible by the evening.<\/p>\n
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Shown are the Storm Prediction Center\u2019s severe weather outlooks for Saturday and Sunday. The highlighted areas have the best chance of seeing severe storms.<\/p>\n
Storm Prediction Center<\/p>\n
Sunday:\u00a0The severe weather threat will shift to the east and include much of the Interstate 35 corridor, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Waco, Austin and potentially as far south as San Antonio. The Hill Country will also face a risk of strong to severe storms. All severe weather hazards \u2014 hail, damaging winds and tornadoes \u2014 will remain possible Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Monday: Long-range weather models suggest that moisture and atmospheric instability will remain high on Monday through parts of the Southern Plains. However, the severe weather risk will generally stay in the northern half of the state, including cities such as Abilene, Waco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Sherman, according to the Storm Prediction Center.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Many of the same parts of North Texas will be under a severe threat again on Tuesday. However, the Storm Prediction Center also includes parts of East Texas, including Lufkin, Nacogdoches\u00a0and Longview, in the severe storm risk area.<\/p>\n
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Shown are the Storm Prediction Center\u2019s severe weather outlooks for next Monday and next Tuesday. The highlighted areas have the best chance of seeing severe storms.<\/p>\n
Storm Prediction Center<\/p>\n
Because these severe weather threats are still several days away, uncertainty remains high, especially regarding the exact timing and placement of storms. However, with high levels of moisture and instability expected across Texas for several days, the ingredients are certainly in place for intense storm development.<\/p>\n
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The greatest rainfall totals are most likely across the northern half of the state, where the National Blend of Models projects a broad swath of an inch to 2.5 inches of rain over the next seven days. Rainfall totals will likely be lower in South Texas, where a half-inch to an inch of rain is expected.<\/p>\n
Changes to this forecast are likely in the coming days, as forecast models refine the specific details. Stay with expressnews.com\/weather<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms will be possible across parts of Texas starting on Saturday, and the threat will continue for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-240691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240691","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=240691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}