FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY: Flooding Threat Increases Saturday Night

The active streak of weather continues this weekend. Today is a First Alert Weather Day! While most of Saturday has been quiet and calm so far, there’s another chance for storms heading our way. Throughout the rest of your afternoon and evening, a few scattered showers and thunderstorms could develop anywhere in Central Texas. There’s a chance for some of those storms to become strong to severe. Now, in any stronger storms, strong winds and hail will be possible. The better chance for tornadoes will stay to the west of Central Texas. A widespread wave of heavy rain and storms will be moving in from the west late this evening and sweep east through the area into the early morning hours of your Sunday. During the overnight time frame, there could be a few strong storms, with winds and hail, but the main concern will be the potential for flooding across Central Texas. ALL of Central Texas is placed under a Flood Watch until 1PM Sunday. An additional 1″ to 3″ of rain is expected to fall in our area with isolated amounts of 5″ or more possible. Forecast models are suggesting that the highest totals of rain Saturday into Sunday will likely fall across our western and southern counties. Now, throughout the work week, our eastern areas were slammed with torrential rains, anywhere from 4″ to 8″ - So while rain totals may not be as high for the eastern half of Central Texas, any additional rain on top of what has already fallen throughout the week could trigger additional flooding. Everyone in Central Texas needs to remain aware of the flooding potential and remember - TURN AROUND, DON’T DROWN! As far as rain chances go for the rest of Sunday, that main wave of rain looks to come to a close during the morning, but additional showers and thunderstorms will be possible in the afternoon. Coverage of rain for the afternoon and early evening hours will be hit and miss and look best for the southern half of Central Texas. Some will see rain Sunday afternoon and others will not. Outside of rain chances, morning temperatures will be warm into the mid 60s and low 70s. Highs will be cooler behind a cold front only warming into the 70s and you can expect to keep some cloud cover around thanks to rain chances lingering. Make sure you have our free, KWTX weather app downloaded so you can keep up with the latest updates in the forecast.

The HEAT and HUMIDITY will be increasing into the new work week. We’ll be watching a chance for a few isolated late day showers and storms Monday, but the better severe weather potential will stay to the north of Central Texas. The work week starts out in the upper 60s with highs back into the low 80s… But factor in the humidity and it’s going to feel like the upper 80s Monday. The warm and mugginess continue to build. Tuesday and Wednesday the forecast looks mostly rain free for Central Texas… And with decreasing rain chances, that means our temperatures will be hotter. We look to be around 90° Tuesday and Wednesday with feels-like temperatures in the mid 90s to around 100°. There are signs of a fairly strong cold front moving into Central Texas late Thursday into Friday. This front looks like it’ll bring the best chance for showers and thunderstorms on Thursday. We’ll be monitoring the severe weather potential as the ingredients for storms could be in place. Temperatures drop from the mid to upper 80s Thursday, down into the upper 70s and low 80s with less humidity by Friday. The forecast for Mother’s Day weekend is looking cooler for Central Texas. Highs look to be back into the upper 70s for Saturday and Sunday with morning lows down into the upper 50s!

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