{"id":243723,"date":"2026-04-10T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:16:25","slug":"chances-of-severe-weather-increase-this-weekend-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243723\/","title":{"rendered":"Chances of Severe Weather Increase This Weekend In Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the South Plains and Panhandle could use some rain. It has been dry for a while and going into this weekend, relief may finally be in sight.<\/p>\n

According to both the National Weather Service and Rob Roberts of KAMC<\/a>, relief may be on the way as soon as Friday with high’s only in the\u00a0low to mid 80’s in our area. Rain chances increase to around 20% on Friday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

Big Changes On Saturday<\/p>\n

Saturday is the day everyone seems to be waiting for. High temperatures for the Lubbock <\/a>area will be in the 70s and the sky will stay mostly cloudy all day long. Rain chances are expected to rise dramatically to 70%.<\/p>\n

There is also a chance of severe weather with large hail and isolated tornadoes possible.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: How To Stay Safe During Severe Weather<\/a><\/p>\n

You will be wanting to pay attention to weather alerts on Saturday.<\/p>\n

More storms are predicted Sunday, but mainly in the morning with high temperatures expected to be in the low 80s.<\/p>\n

Palo Duro Canyon Full of Life After Recent Rain<\/p>\n

Palo Duro Canyon is of Texas’ best places to visit. And if you make a trip to the canyon anytime soon, you’ll get to see vibrant flowers, brush, trees, and other plants that are full of life after recent rain in the area. Take a look at some recent pictures taken by KFYO’s Chad Hasty who made a trip to Palo Duro Canyon.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Chad Hasty<\/p>\n

23 Things That We Need in Lubbock, TXWe asked our Facebook audience<\/a> what Lubbock is missing, and their responses left nothing to the imagination. <\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of the South Plains and Panhandle could use some rain. It has been dry for a while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-243723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243723","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=243723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}