{"id":338368,"date":"2026-06-16T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:03:13","slug":"strong-winds-heavy-rain-and-lightning-batter-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338368\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Winds, Heavy Rain and Lightning Batter South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Strong winds, rain, and lightning struck South Padre Island in Texas in the early hours of Tuesday, June 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS issued <a data-ylk=\"slk:flood warnings;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\/NWSBrownsville\/status\/2066818953607843956?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">flood warnings<\/a> across all of southern Texas, with two to four inches of rainfall being expected over the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Brian Devore shows the effects of the severe weather, with palm trees being blown by strong gusts of wind while dense sheets of rain pour down. Credit: Brian Devore via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong winds, rain, and lightning struck South Padre Island in Texas in the early hours of Tuesday, June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120625,120626,16698,9040,15782,25353,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-338368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brian-devore","tag-flood-warnings","tag-nws","tag-south-padre-island","tag-southern-texas","tag-strong-winds","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338368","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=338368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}