{"id":306738,"date":"2026-05-24T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:20:09","slug":"waterspout-whirls-off-southeast-texas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306738\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterspout Whirls Off Southeast Texas Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:storm system;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\/2058256818485248300\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">storm system<\/a> which brought heavy rain and powerful gusts to southeast Texas produced a waterspout on Saturday, May 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neil Davis said he captured the whirling column off Pleasure Pier in Galveston at <a data-ylk=\"slk:11:38 am;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\/davis_wx\/status\/2058231269893284124?s=46\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">11:38 am<\/a>, where the National Weather Service (NWS) had issued a <a data-ylk=\"slk:Special Marine 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\/NWSHouston\/status\/2058250004582588887\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Special Marine Warning<\/a>, though according to the service no waterspout was expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drone footage shows the twister drifting off the coast. Credit: Neil Davis via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A storm system which brought heavy rain and powerful gusts to southeast Texas produced a waterspout on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14400,1971,111115,2255,13364,27,29,28,111116],"class_list":["post-306738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-heavy-rain","tag-national-weather-service","tag-neil-davis","tag-southeast-texas","tag-storm-system","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-waterspout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306738","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=306738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}