Severe Thunderstorms and Flash Flood Threats Continue in Texas, Gulf Coast (FORECAST)

Quincy Vagell
Published: April 12,2016
Severe thunderstorms will once again rumble across parts of Texas Tuesday after hail, high winds, and locally flooding rainfall swamped parts of the South Monday.

Softball-size hail (left) punched holes in a roof (right) in Wylie, Texas on April 11, 2016.
(Mary Ann Olson (left), Wes Stephens (right))

Over 40 reports of large hail, some up to softball size hail (4.25 inch diameter) pelted a swath of north Texas Monday afternoon and evening just north of Dallas and Ft. Worth, shattering car windshields and windows on homes.
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Texarkana, Arkansas reported wind damage with numerous trees down and some street flooding and a wind gust of 70 mph was measured near Frisco, Texas. There were also numerous reports of roadways flooded in Louisiana and Mississippi, including Jackson, Mississippi. Water was also entering homes in Monroe, Louisiana Monday night.

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Below is a look at the severe weather forecast this week.

Severe Weather Forecast

Tuesday

• While thunderstorms are expected in the Southeast ahead of the cold front, a lack of instability and wind shear should limit any severe threat, there.
• To the west, an upper-level disturbance pivots into Texas later Tuesday, firing scattered severe thunderstorms near the Rio Grande Valley, possibly congealing into a cluster of storms overnight from the Texas Gulf Coast into Deep South Texas.
• Main threats are large hail, locally flooding rain, damaging winds, and perhaps a tornado.
• Cities: San Antonio, Texas | Corpus Christi, Texas | Houston

Tuesday's Thunderstorm Forecast

Wednesday/Thursday

• The upper-level storm system continues to limp slowly across the South.
• With relatively limited instability, the severe threat will remain rather limited.
• Local flash flooding from slow-moving, training thunderstorms, will be still be a threat.

(MAPS: 7-Day Rain/Snow National Forecast)

Sunday's Storm Reports

This latest round of severe weather first fired up in the southern Plains Sunday. Hail up to 2.5 inches (tennis ball size) was reported near Ralls, Dickens, and Guthrie, Texas. On Sunday afternoon, golf ball size hail was reported near Crowell, Texas and ping pong ball size hail was measured near Slaton, Texas. A wind gust of 65 mph was also measured near Vernon, Texas, and a gust of 60 mph was reported near Hobart, Oklahoma.

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