{"id":452165,"date":"2026-09-30T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452165\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:26:14","slug":"heavy-rain-isolated-disruptive-storms-to-move-through-north-texas-wednesday-flood-watch-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452165\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain, isolated disruptive storms to move through North Texas Wednesday; flood watch in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few showers are moving through western counties, while others are waking up to plenty of clouds on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Expect mostly cloudy skies, highs in the 90s, and a few pop-up showers or storms throughout the day. The better chance for storms, including the potential for severe storms, comes on Wednesday evening as a front approaches from the west.<\/p>\n<p>Levels 1 and 2 risks are in place, with damaging winds as the main threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790778371_767_weather-2.png#.png\" alt=\"weather-2.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain moves into the area overnight, increasing the risk of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday and Friday are both First Alert Weather Days due to the threat of flooding and areawide strong storms.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790778372_154_weather-3.png#.png\" alt=\"weather-3.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A flood watch is in effect beginning Wednesday afternoon and continuing through Friday morning.\u00a0 At least 2&#8243; to 4&#8243; of rain is likely across most of North Texas, with a swath of 6&#8243;+ inches possible depending on where the front stalls out.<\/p>\n<p>Plan to leave your house a little earlier on Thursday, as heavy rain is likely to continue before and during the morning commute, causing ponding on roadways.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790778373_55_weather-5.png#.png\" alt=\"weather-5.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The rain will continue throughout the day, but there may be a break at times. There is a low-end level 1 risk of severe storms as this system moves through, capable of producing gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>Heavier rain gradually pushes east on Friday, although there is a chance some of these linger across DFW for the morning drive.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the weekend, there will be lingering showers on Saturday with some clearing and drier conditions on the way for Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Expect plenty of sunshine early next week with morning temperatures in the lower to mid-60s. Break out the pumpkin spice.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790778374_339_weather-7.png#.png\" alt=\"weather-7.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few showers are moving through western counties, while others are waking up to plenty of clouds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[581,122,27,29,28,443],"class_list":["post-452165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas-county","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452165","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=452165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}