{"id":306811,"date":"2026-05-24T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:59:40","slug":"funnel-cloud-spotted-as-severe-storm-moves-across-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306811\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnel Cloud Spotted as Severe Storm Moves Across West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A funnel cloud was spotted as severe thunderstorms swept across parts of west Texas on Saturday, May 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shared on social media shows a funnel cloud illuminated by flashes of lightning near Shallowater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">X user @ClayGraves1, who posted the video, wrote: \u201cThis landspout was right west of my house. Sure got my attention.\u201d<\/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\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2058385662923968994?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> a warning for the area as forecasters warned of strong winds and quarter-sized hail. Credit: @ClayGraves1 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funnel cloud was spotted as severe thunderstorms swept across parts of west Texas on Saturday, May 23.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91098,9207,702,27,29,28,58279,375],"class_list":["post-306811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-funnel-cloud","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-social-media","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-national-weather-service","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306811","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=306811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}