{"id":284175,"date":"2026-05-08T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:31:06","slug":"large-hail-threat-climbs-for-san-antonio-south-central-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284175\/","title":{"rendered":"Large hail threat climbs for San Antonio, South Central Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This burst of northern air<\/a> that\u2019s sent South Texas temperatures plummeting comes with a dark side. The entire region is under some level of severe storm risk<\/a> from Austin to San Antonio to Eagle Pass, and the National Weather Service says heavy rain, large hail<\/a> and lightning could all hit these cities between Friday afternoon, May 9, and Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Parts of South Central Texas, including the Texas Hill Country and the greater San Antonio-Austin corridor along I-35, are under a low risk of excessive rainfall. Pockets of 1 to 2 inches could douse towns and major cities, which forecasters say could lead to isolated incidents of flash flooding.<\/p>\n

However, large hail and lightning all pose a risk to Texans as these severe storms move through.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn isolated strong to severe storm could affect parts of the Rio Grande Plains,\u201d the NWS Austin-San Antonio office<\/a> warns. \u201cLarge hail and lightning are the main hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a 50% to 70% chance of rain and thunderstorms along the Coastal Plains and I-35 corridor Friday afternoon. These odds dip slightly heading into the Hill Country, Southern Edwards Plateau and Rio Grande lingering in the 20% to 40% range.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge hail, strong to damaging wind guests, and lightning are the main hazards,\u201d the national agency reports.<\/p>\n

Just as these storm clouds pass on Friday, another cold front is slated to sweep in Sunday evening. With it, more storm clouds could be in the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This burst of northern air that\u2019s sent South Texas temperatures plummeting comes with a dark side. The entire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[820,3091,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-284175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysawx","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284175","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=284175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}