{"id":250797,"date":"2026-04-15T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:41:21","slug":"austin-weather-intense-storms-in-west-texas-could-make-it-to-hill-country-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250797\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin weather: Intense storms in West Texas could make it to Hill Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>Cloudy\/sun mix, warm, humid and breezy conditions today<\/p>\n<p>Storm watch tonight with intense storms in West Texas<\/p>\n<p>Chance a few of the storms will hit Hill Country<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; We will be on storm watch tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Local perspective<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86f2cc3763d39789c5128712adb68763.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More of the same today with a cloud\/sun mix, warm, humid and breezy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Highs heading for the 80s with wind gusts of 15 to 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15008b61e3d4366b46aba5a48dc8fde7.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>The West Texas dryline will be the storm machine. This is where the Gulf moisture meets up with dry air coming off the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>As the two different air masses collide the air will be forced up.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/68911fd2a6063eb1d4fff30f62d9b5d9.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The heating of the day and upper low will provide even stronger lift to generate numerous and more intense storms in West Texas.<\/p>\n<p>There is a chance a few of the storms will survive their journey away from the dryline and reach the Hill Country starting this evening and overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8bc42f7ee88900b5ae71c2f0ffc7d25a.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By the time they enter Central Texas, most of the storms will drop below severe limits.<\/p>\n<p>The highest threat of severe weather remains west of the Hill Country.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>Could we get redevelopment with the storms late on Wednesday?<\/p>\n<p>The jury is still out because not all the models agree, so we will have to play the wait and see game.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ebf495373efa0edc4b7a33784ff74b7.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The next game-changers will be a stronger Western Low and a cold front with bite to it entering the picture this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Expecting increasing rain chances on Saturday followed by a cooler and drier breeze the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>What you can do<\/p>\n<p>Track your local forecast for the Austin area quickly with the free <a href=\"https:\/\/fox7austin.onelink.me\/ObBw?pid=Web&amp;c=in_article&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox7austin.com%2Fapps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FOX 7 WAPP;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">FOX 7 WAPP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The design gives you radar, hourly, and 7-day weather information just by scrolling.<\/p>\n<p>Our weather alerts will warn you early and help you stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Information from meteorologist Zack Shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Cloudy\/sun mix, warm, humid and breezy conditions today Storm watch tonight with intense storms in West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,95083,4178,95082,4375,27,375],"class_list":{"0":"post-250797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-breezy-conditions","12":"tag-hill-country","13":"tag-intense-storms","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-west-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250797","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=250797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}