WEATHER IMPACT ALERT | Severe thunderstorms moving through Central Texas
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[{'start': '3.730', 'end': '5.289', 'text': "Welcome back to 6 News at 10. Worth pointing out, as said in that promo, you definitely wanna have the 6 Plus app we've been on all day. I've been in and out every 1015 minutes. Once we had those tornado warnings and all the hail concerns earlier, we were basically wall to wall on our 6 Plus streaming app, so you wanna have those digital platforms. It's a great resource that way, you know, if we, uh, don't, you know, interrupt programming, you still have that way to get all that vital weather information. Of course today we did interrupt programming and we always will for. Tornado warnings as uh those are very destructive, of course, uh, right now again those tornado warnings today primarily over in Burnet County and we're still seeing activity out there. There's just this little pocket of energy but perhaps being fed by a little, uh, nocturnal jet stream, a little low level jet stream out here feeding these storms just a little bit more, but again still seeing that hail core present over, uh, parts of northern Burnet County moving, uh, potentially into Lamp Pasa. County. So here's the deal. There's two separate severe thunderstorm warnings on this particular storm, and there's a reason for that. Uh, the reason is, uh, anybody north of the Lampasas County line, that's gonna be the DFW, uh, National Weather Service office. Anybody south of the Burnet County line, that's gonna be the Austin San Antonio office. Why is that important? Because, uh, they're both looking at the same storm. They're trying to coordinate with each other and try to figure out where these storms are headed in this one. It's not heading anywhere anytime soon. It is finally across 183. It's moving somewhat east, uh, slightly northeast as well, but again, moving towards areas that have already been hard hit today. You can see both severe thunderstorm warnings in effect until 10:30. Again, the bottom line is moving east northeast right now. It's taking a little bit more of an east jog. Over the last several scans, what you're seeing is the storm motion continues to be to the east, but we're continuing to see kind of this area of, uh, largest hail kind of stick right over northern Burnet County. So again this is where again that pocket of energy that the the storms are feeding off of is, but as soon as they cross the line into, uh, uh, parts of Bell County and Coryell County, La Paso County, they're just kind of falling apart as they get there and we kind of see this. Uh, holding steady over the same parts of central Texas right now, anytime you see that purple color inside this hail core that is typically gonna indicate about 2+ inch hail. Let me go ahead and put a tracker on it so you can kind of see what we're dealing with right over highway 183, 1.6 inches. So we're talking golf ball, potentially ping pong ball sized hail within this storm still here in the 10 o'clock hour. With that being said, the severe thunderstorm watch has been allowed to expire. This is the only storm that is severe across central Texas. Maybe a little bit of light rainfall across, uh, parts of Temple, Belton down towards Toledo and Rogers. You see heavier rainfall down towards Milam County, but some of the heaviest rain outside of that Burnet County storm that we're seeing is down in the Brazos Valley, southern Brazos County, uh, southern uh Burleson County, and then over. Into Grimes County as well, but none of that is severe. That is all just rain at this point. As a matter of fact, anybody in the I-35 corridor, all we really expect at this point is rain and, uh, for some of us that's not the best news in the world because anywhere you see these green boxes, those are flash flood warnings. The lighter green boxes are flood advisory, so still some flooding concerns across central Texas as lots of rain. Has fallen, so how much energy do these storms have left? Well, temperatures have cooled anywhere in the 60s here. That is good news. 70s still holding on to some of that heat there, but the moisture is still there. We're still seeing those dew points in the upper 50s, lower 60s, to the middle 60s, which means there's still some fuel out there. So we'll have to keep that in mind for the rest of the night. Our forecast. Still saying that this is out of here by 12, 1 o'clock, and then we're clear for most of the night. But then here comes that cold front we talked about it earlier. By about 10 o'clock we're gonna see it start moving into our northern counties, and as that cold front pushes through throughout the course of the day, gonna kick up more shower and thunderstorm activity, some of which could once again. Be strong to severe. So yes, this is day 3 in a row. We'll be on the lookout for some of that severe weather across central Texas. The cold front though makes it through central Texas by about 789 o'clock, and then we're gonna take bulk of the activity with us. Might see some activity there as we head towards 1011, midnight, but most of that moves out before we enter the overnight hours as the front comes through, keep in mind. A slight risk of those severe storms. So we'll keep that in mind. damaging winds, large hail, the primary factors, but again could be a tornado threat as well. It would be a low threat, but we can't 100% rule it out. So again, a lot going on for your Friday too, so just make sure you're staying with us because we still have one more day of that potential severe weather ahead of us. Other than that, you'll wake up in the lower 60s. Ending the day potentially some of us not getting out of the middle 70s because of the cold front, the cloud cover, and the rain. Behind that we have a pretty decent weekend, Saturday, Sunday, mostly clear to partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the lower 80s. Monday, much the same, but increasing clouds, and then our next storm system moves in by the middle of next week. And to keep up with all that because it's a lot, download the 6 Plus app, it's free to download on your smart TV."}]