{"id":252485,"date":"2026-04-16T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252485\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:02:07","slug":"storm-produces-funnel-cloud-hail-and-rainbow-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252485\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Produces Funnel Cloud, Hail, and Rainbow in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A weather enthusiast captured a rainbow, a funnel cloud, and hail on camera as thunderstorm warnings were in place in what\u2019s known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSSanAngelo\/status\/2044550109808198047\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cBig Country\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cBig Country\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cBig Country\u201d<\/a> in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meri Combs, an Abilene resident, filmed videos of the multiple weather events near her hometown on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rain in the area caused a driver to lose control on the slick roads, leading to a crash in which they were seriously injured, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigcountryhomepage.com\/news\/1-injured-in-rain-related-crash-northeast-of-abilene\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTAB\/KRBC reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTAB\/KRBC reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTAB\/KRBC reported<\/a>. Credit: Meri Combs via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A weather enthusiast captured a rainbow, a funnel cloud, and hail on camera as thunderstorm warnings were in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91098,95493,27,29,28,95494],"class_list":{"0":"post-252485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-funnel-cloud","9":"tag-meri-combs","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-weather-enthusiast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252485","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=252485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}