{"id":267725,"date":"2026-04-27T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:37:08","slug":"softball-sized-smashes-fort-worth-backyard-amid-severe-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267725\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Softball-Sized&#8217; Smashes Fort Worth Backyard Amid Severe Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isolated to scattered severe storms brought threats of \u201c<a data-ylk=\"slk:larger than softball-sized hail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2048153365033419132\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">larger than softball-sized hail<\/a>\u201d to Fort Worth on Saturday evening, April 25, along with damaging wind gusts and tornado threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service issued a <a data-ylk=\"slk:Severe Thunderstorm Warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2048247352662663402\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Thunderstorm Warning<\/a> for the city, amid forecasts of 70 mph gusts and hail up to 4.25 inches large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here captured by X user @earl_texas shows flashes of lightning as massive hailstones clattered down in a backyard, creating large splashes in the swimming pool. Credit: @earl_texas via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isolated to scattered severe storms brought threats of \u201clarger than softball-sized hail\u201d to Fort Worth on Saturday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,1971,9208,67330,99818,9145],"class_list":["post-267725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-severe-storms","tag-severe-thunderstorm-warning","tag-tornado-threats","tag-wind-gusts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267725","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=267725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}