{"id":25143,"date":"2025-10-28T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25143\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:43:16","slug":"tornado-watch-in-effect-for-three-houston-area-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25143\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Watch in effect for three Houston-area counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TEXAS &#8211; A Tornado Watch is now in effect for three eastern counties in the Greater Houston area.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston-area Tornado Watches  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/D8F3D0E090D32E462B83F842DB1FD5D4.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Tornado Watch in effect for certain counties\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Polk, Chambers, and Liberty Counties are included in a Tornado Watch for parts of Texas and Louisiana, <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/wwamap\/wwatxtget.php?cwa=HGX&amp;wwa=tornado%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the National Weather Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The watch currently remains in effect until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/1983274421985919177\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the watch<\/a>, the threat includes the possibility of &#8220;a couple tornadoes,&#8221; isolated wind gusts of up to 70 mph, and hail up to the size of ping-pong balls.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/g4ybkv3xcaaayh_.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">(Photo credit: National Weather Service) <\/p>\n<p>  Watch vs Warning <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/sjt\/WatchWarningAdvisoryExplained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the National Service<\/a>, a severe weather watch is issued when the risk has increased, but the timing and\/or location of that weather event is unknown. A watch is issued to give people time to set an emergency plan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A warning is issued when a severe weather event is either happening, about to happen, or likely to happen. Anyone in the area of a warning should take immediate protective action.<\/p>\n<p> Houston storms Tuesday <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761687796_807_img_3117.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.slack.com\/client\/EEH6KAD9C\/CFKL161K2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A significant cold front<\/a> will move through Southeast Texas late this afternoon, which will bring a chance for isolated strong to severe thunderstorms between around 3-6pm. The main concerns will be damaging wind gusts and possibly some hail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Following the front, conditions are expected to clear out quickly tonight, with much cooler moving in for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: National Weather Service and Your Gulf Coast Weather Authority.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/polk-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/chambers-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chambers County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/liberty-county\/liberty\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS &#8211; A Tornado Watch is now in effect for three eastern counties in the Greater Houston area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13359,56,58,57,17763,10014,6215,4375,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-25143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-chambers-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-liberty","13":"tag-liberty-county","14":"tag-polk-county","15":"tag-severe-weather","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143","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=25143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}