{"id":288731,"date":"2026-05-11T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288731\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:58:12","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-bring-rain-lightning-to-southeast-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288731\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Thunderstorms Bring Rain, Lightning to Southeast Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning illuminated the sky as rain fell on parts of southeast Texas in the early morning hours of Monday, May 11, as the <a data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;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\/NWSHouston\/status\/2053678490243768653\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> (NWS) issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">X user @JustinAaronUH91 captured this footage in Dayton, located about 37 miles northeast of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs anticipated, it was rough,\u201d @JustinAaronUH91 wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;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\/NWSHouston\/status\/2053802995410751649\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> conditions were expected to improve through the day on Monday. Credit: @JustinAaronUH91 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning illuminated the sky as rain fell on parts of southeast Texas in the early morning hours of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35819,1971,11800,2255,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-288731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lightning","tag-national-weather-service","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","tag-southeast-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288731","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=288731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}