Severe storms caused heavy rainfall and flooding in West Texas, with the National Weather Service warning of more severe weather possible this week.<\/p>\n
SAN ANGELO, Texas \u2014 Severe storms over the weekend brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of West Texas, and forecasters say another round of severe weather could arrive as soon as this week.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service said the strongest part of the storm system moved through the region the evening of April 11, dropping more than 2 inches of rain across the Concho Valley, including San Angelo. The rain caused localized flooding in the city.<\/p>\n
In the Big Country, rainfall totals exceeded 2.25 inches. Farther east, flooding in San Saba County forced the closure of Colorado Bend State Park.<\/p>\n
Meteorologists said the storms are typical for this time of year, when severe weather season peaks in West Central Texas. They added that conditions could support another round of scattered severe storms as early as April 14 during the evening and overnight hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s pretty much what we kind of get sometimes during these slight risk or level 2 out of 5 type severe weather events, where it\u2019s more isolated to scattered strong to severe storms,\u201d Stephen Harrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office serving Abilene and San Angelo, said.<\/p>\n
Harrison said now is the time to stay weather-aware. \u201cThis is the peak severe weather season for West Central Texas,\u201d he said. \u201cMake sure you have at least two ways to receive warnings. Make sure you know where the safe place is to go in your house and just continue to monitor the weather and pay attention to any alerts that are issued.\u201d<\/p>\n
To stay informed with active weather events, visit the National Weather Service’s website<\/a> or download the free FOX West Texas+ app.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe storms caused heavy rainfall and flooding in West Texas, with the National Weather Service warning of more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-248385","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\/248385","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=248385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}