SPC Issues New Overnight Severe Watch as Texas Line Strengthens and Flood Risk Grows

Overview

• Severe Thunderstorm Watch 101 now covers central and north Texas through early morning, with the Storm Prediction Center warning of damaging wind gusts to 70 mph and a low chance of a brief tornado as a band of storms moves northeast.
• The earlier Severe Thunderstorm Watch 100 remains in effect over the Edwards Plateau, where a line of storms with bowing segments is producing strong winds and isolated hail.
• The Weather Prediction Center says flash flooding is likely from the middle Rio Grande Valley into the Edwards Plateau, with training thunderstorms capable of 2 to 3 inches of rain in an hour.
• Flash flooding is also possible from north‑central Texas into south‑central Oklahoma, where 1 to 2 inches per hour could add up to 2 to 4 inches in a few hours and make low water crossings and city streets dangerous.
• Earlier in the evening, Tornado Watch 99 covered far northern Kansas and southeast Nebraska, and forecasters report multi‑inch rains and flash flooding in parts of northeastern Kansas and northwest Missouri driven by a strong low‑level jet and small‑scale disturbances.