Will storms from West Texas survive after reaching I-35? Here’s what the Brazos Valley is monitoring tonight

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Saturday night introduced elements of the Brazos Valley quarter, golfball, and baseball dimension hail producing extreme thunderstorms. Sunday solely managed just a few rumbles and one quarter size hail report in the Conroe area throughout the afternoon hours. Now, the eye turns to the west as stormy climate will try to survive the journey over I-35 within the pre-sunrise hours of Monday.

SEVERE STORMS IN WEST TEXAS

As of Sunday night, quite a few extreme thunderstorms had been ongoing from north of Amarillo to the I-10 hall, west of Fort Stockton. Wind gusts over 70mph, hail to the dimensions of an egg or baseball, and some twister considerations had the Nationwide Climate Service issuing warnings at instances.

These storms are anticipated to cluster collectively by early night hours as they run out of West Texas towards the Hill County and southwestern parts of Texas. That is the exercise that shall be monitored for the Brazos Valley.

Under is the most recent particulars and developments as of 9:30pm Sunday:

LOW, BUT NOT ZERO, CHANCE FOR RAIN OR THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 3AM

Most forecast knowledge all through Sunday has weakened these clusters of storms earlier than or by the point they cross I-35. A extra steady air mass on this facet of the state ought to basically run the storms right into a wall that weakens and ultimately fizzles this exercise within the early hours of Monday morning.

To that time, the Storm Prediction Heart has opted to maintain the danger of extreme storms at a 2 out of 5 from Dallas to Waco to north of Austin, stretching east towards I-45 north of the Brazos Valley (proven in yellow under).

IMPACTS (IF ANY…)

Ought to these clusters of storms handle to outlive east of the interstate, the priority for any remoted extreme climate could be (within the following order):

• Sturdy wind gusts in extra of 40mph
• Hail to the dimensions of 1 / 4, if not barely bigger
• a short twister
• localized heavy rain
• noisy thunder, flashy lightning

Any extreme climate concern that will materialize on this state of affairs could be extra doubtless throughout the western or northwestern reaches of the Brazos Valley after 3 a.m. Monday.

Whereas the general concern is low, it is going to be one thing we proceed to observe within the PinPoint Climate Heart. It’s a good evening to have your cellular phone charging close by with the KBTX PinPoint Climate App notifications on, within the off probability a warning is issued on your neighborhood.

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