{"id":301776,"date":"2026-05-20T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:09:11","slug":"lightning-flashes-in-austin-night-sky-as-severe-storms-sweep-through-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301776\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Flashes in Austin Night Sky as Severe Storms Sweep Through Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning flashed across the night sky over Austin on Tuesday, May 19, as <a data-ylk=\"slk:severe thunderstorms;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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2057038876326175207\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">severe thunderstorms<\/a> moved through parts of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2056916589375521167\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> wind gusts up to 70 mph, along with periods of heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Forecasters <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\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/2057038876326175207\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> showers would continue in some areas through Thursday morning, with isolated totals of 2 to 5 inches possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The footage was captured by Sanya Timar in Austin late Wednesday night. Credit: Sanya Timar via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning flashed across the night sky over Austin on Tuesday, May 19, as severe thunderstorms moved through parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,14380,1971,109569,9207,109570],"class_list":["post-301776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-national-weather-service","tag-sanya-timar","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-the-night-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301776","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=301776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}