{"id":305282,"date":"2026-05-23T00:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:05:12","slug":"landspout-creates-eerie-scene-amid-severe-thunderstorm-warnings-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305282\/","title":{"rendered":"Landspout Creates Eerie Scene Amid Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A landspout created an eerie scene as it swirled near Fort Stockton, Texas, during a thunderstorm warning on Wednesday, May 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mathieu Brochier recorded this footage of dust being kicked up and transforming the color of the sky in the process. On <a data-ylk=\"slk:X;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\/mathieubrochier\/status\/2057299480622383453\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, Brochier said the swirling dust lasted about two minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:issued;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\/NWSMidland\/status\/2057217167519551904\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> a severe thunderstorm for Pecos County, in which Fort Stockton is located. Winds up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail was possible, the weather service said. Credit: Mathieu Brochier via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landspout created an eerie scene as it swirled near Fort Stockton, Texas, during a thunderstorm warning on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110638,12261,110637,48856,12319,27,29,28,58279],"class_list":["post-305282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brochier","tag-fort-stockton","tag-mathieu-brochier","tag-pecos-county","tag-severe-thunderstorm","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305282","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=305282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}