South Texas faces severe storms and heavy rain

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Heavy rain is in store for parts of Texas in the second half of this week.

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00:00that rain is increasing flood risks for the area. Some areas are expecting up to

00:05eight inches of rain in an area, maybe a little west southwest of Corpus Christi.

00:09Meanwhile, the weekend weather outlook could be even more intense for others.

00:13As another major storm moves across the country, it'll bring severe weather,

00:17damaging wind and even the chance for isolated tornadoes. Over a dozen states

00:20could see some of the impacts of the severe weather and a chance for

00:23extended severe storms carrying east in through Monday for the southeast. Let's

00:29take you to Puerto Rancis, Texas right now. And this area has been very wet. We

00:34have the white caps out there. It is kind of a disruptive time for anybody

00:39who had planned on maybe some late spring break beach action. You could see

00:43people driving on the beaches. There is a cool spot where you can do that. But

00:47overall, the rain is pretty widespread into south central and southeast Texas

00:53areas around Victoria, Corpus Christi, turning the lightning strikes on. You

00:57could see that there is a lot of that, especially offshore, but also extending

01:01north and west up into the hill country west of San Antonio and to the north up

01:05near Bernie, Texas as well. There's a pretty intense, non severe storm moving

01:09through an area west of Interstate 35, a little bit southwest of Fowl Furious,

01:14moving through a slightly less populated area, but lots of lightning

01:17out there into southwest Texas. It's bringing some drought relief, and the

01:21only severe storm in the nation right now is this one approaching Picos, Texas

01:25between I-10 and I-20. It has crossed I-10, turning the reports on. I'm not

01:30surprised that we're not finding a whole lot of that being reported yet because

01:35this is a pretty desolate area if you are east of Balmeria, and it looks like

01:39the hail core. It did cross I-10, but it passed east of there at this point. So

01:45again, lots of lightning. We'll track this severe thunderstorm warning for a

01:49little bit longer. It's in effect for an area south of Picos, Texas, and again

01:53turning the warning back on here. This is running until 5-15 for a part of

01:58Interstate 20 at this point, well northwest of Fort Stockton, approaching

02:02Picos, Texas. So the drought monitor shows that we're dealing with a lot of

02:05issues here. We've had some ongoing drought, a significant drought, and even

02:11extreme and exceptional drought on the yellows and the dark browns on this map

02:16here. The dark brown, that's almost black, showing where the drought is at

02:19the highest end of the drought severity index. So again, the overall exceptional

02:25drought pops up on our drought severity index there near San Antonio and also

02:29into West Texas, and we're getting some rain there. That's good news in those

02:32areas. Just into areas like Lubbock, north of the rain, we're at 83 there, 73

02:38into Jackson, and the rain's knocked us down to 71 in Corpus Christi. So decent

02:42rain continuing to fall in these areas here over the next few days. We'll be

02:45watching, and some of the heaviest rain on Thursday will fall in San

02:50Antonio, Houston, Odessa, Lubbock, Texas. And again, we have some severe weather

02:55possible in this area here. We'll be tracking all that here through the next

02:58few days into Thursday night and Friday. Some risk of flash flooding. The most

03:02extreme rainfall will be out there into Texas on Friday. Drenching downpours in

03:07east Texas still. That slides east. There's your rainfall forecast. Some

03:10areas seeing eight plus inches northwest of Corpus Christi.

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