LIVE BLOG: Storms move through Central Texas

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Sturdy thunderstorms are headed southeast by way of Central Texas Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, robust winds, hail and even a threat of tornadoes. These storms will seemingly linger by way of the early morning hours Wednesday, probably lingering for the morning commute, earlier than clearly by noon.

A Extreme Thunderstorm Watch is in impact for components of the world till 3 a.m. Wednesday, indicating the potential of damaging extreme climate. Storms firing west of our space have produced softball measurement hail close to San Angelo.

Beneath is an inventory of assets and reside updates all through the night time.

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Reside updates

1:40 a.m. Wednesday

Extreme thunderstorm watch has been discontinued for the Austin Metro counties, however continues for our japanese counties till 3 a.m. (Fayette County till 5 a.m.)

1 a.m. Wednesday

The lights are coming again on for some Austin Vitality prospects. As of 1 a.m., round 18,000 prospects didn’t have energy, down from 21,000 since 11:35 p.m. Tuesday.

12:20 a.m. Wednesday

This video from Spherical Rock is fairly loopy. A viewer was driving down the road when storms have been blowing by way of the world and the ability simply goes out. Road lights, visitors lights, all the things goes black.

The extreme storms needs to be out of the world round 1:30 a.m., based on the First Warning Climate Crew.

11:35 p.m.

Austin Vitality is reporting greater than 21,000 prospects are with out energy throughout Austin because the storms blow by way of. A lot of the outages are in central, north and northwest Austin, based on the outage map.

Greater than 3,300 Pedernales Electrical Cooperative prospects are with out energy, based on PEC’s outage map. There are almost 2,500 PEC prospects in Travis County with out energy, and greater than 1,000 in Hays County.

11:20 p.m.

The storms are shifting by way of Austin now. Discover shelter in a sturdy constructing. A report from Camp Mabry had a wind gust of fifty mph. We’ve got obtained stories of pea-sized hail from numerous components of Austin.

11 p.m.

KXAN’s meteorologists David Yeomans and Nick Bannin answered questions concerning the incoming band of storms coming into the metro space proper now.

10:30 p.m.

A Extreme Thunderstorm Warning has now been issued for Travis, Williamson, Hays, Blanco and Burnet counties till 11:30 p.m. There are 70 mph winds and quarter-sized hail doable, based on the Nationwide Climate Service.

10 p.m.

The complete Austin metro space is at an enhanced threat of extreme storms, 3 out of 5 on the Storm Prediction Middle’s scale, with an elevated threat of huge hail. Storms are shifting in from west and northwest into Williamson County and are approaching the Spherical Rock space.

9 p.m.

Storms are beginning to make their means into components of the Hill Nation with a report of hail close to Lake Buchanan. KXAN’s First Warning Climate staff is monitoring the storms and mentioned they might arrive between 10 p.m. and midnight.

7:50 p.m.

• Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service – Texas A&M Process Drive One and Texas Process Drive Two: Boat Squads to assist water rescue operations
• Texas Parks and Wildlife Division: Boat Groups to assist water rescue operations
• Texas A&M Forest Service: Noticed Crews and Incident Administration Groups
• Texas Division of Public Security: Helicopters with hoist functionality
• Texas Division of State Well being Companies: Emergency Medical Process Drive (EMTF) extreme climate packages
• Texas Division of Transportation: Monitoring of street circumstances, and gear to assist emergency particles elimination from main roads
• Public Utility Fee: Energy outage monitoring and coordination with utility suppliers as wanted

“The State of Texas stands prepared to supply sturdy help and supply rescue efforts to these affected by extreme climate within the coming days,” Abbott mentioned. “It will be significant for Texans to be ready for the extreme climate and keep alert by way of their group warning system to guard their property and make sure the security of themselves and their family members.”