AccuWeather's Guy Pearson provides an update on the severe storms blasting through Texas, bringing hail and the potential for tornadoes. The storms will continue to move across the Gulf Coast.
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00:00Joining me right now is severe weather expert Guy Pearson.
00:03And, you know, Guy, it's been a busy morning across central Texas here.
00:07It's mostly been a heavy rain, but again, as we take you into the radar here,
00:13you can see some lines of thunderstorms and certainly plenty of lightning.
00:20Yes, there's all kinds of lightning this morning with these storms.
00:25You know, part of that lightning is, you know, there's enough of an updraft
00:28that you actually have some collision of particles up in the atmosphere to help induce that charge.
00:34So we have had some hail reports this morning,
00:37as well as, you know, some rotation areas of potential tornadoes here and there.
00:43All right. You know, when you take a look at the water vapor loop Guy here,
00:47you can kind of see the different sections of this storm.
00:51A lot of moisture here for Texas from Dallas toward Oklahoma City.
00:55While you certainly can't rule out severe weather, it looks like it's mostly rain,
00:59but it's that drier air south of Dallas towards San Antonio and Austin.
01:04That seems to be the area to watch, at least for the majority of the severe weather,
01:09including the tornado threat.
01:13Yep, certainly that drier air to the south, Bernie, that you were mentioning,
01:16as it moves towards the east and northeast later today,
01:19across central Texas and towards east Texas, that's going to be our main focus for severe.
01:25If you're talking as far north as the metroplex area, there will be, you know,
01:29some scattered, some severe weather around,
01:32but certainly not as numerous as across central Texas later today.
01:36When you look at the future radar, there's the rain area, Oklahoma City.
01:40Now, I will say around Dallas, that looks a little concerning, those individual cells,
01:45but then we start talking about the clusters of thunderstorms from about Waco
01:50all the way toward, ooh, just south of Shreveport.
01:55Yep, those individual cells that we're talking about, you know, the metroplex area there,
02:00certainly those individual cells would be the some aspect of, you know,
02:04potential severe weather around.
02:06It's that cluster in that area farther south where you have the dynamics,
02:10you've got a little bit better moisture and a little bit better focus
02:12for those, all the different severe weather ingredients to come together there.
02:17The other concern we have, and I've been mentioning this all morning, Guy,
02:21is it's very concerning what happens in Louisiana late today and tonight.
02:29Yep, you know, as that storm complex from central Texas moves east into Louisiana tonight,
02:36you know, we talked about the two upper level lows that we had,
02:38and they weren't really moving anywhere.
02:40Well, we get this complex that develops later today,
02:43and then it just sort of stalls out along the boundary.
02:46There's still enough push, you know, with the piece of rotating energy over the southwest
02:51that it's continuing with enough forcing to continue that thunderstorm development
02:56and redevelopment over the same areas,
02:58and certainly flash flooding is going to be a risk tonight across Louisiana.
03:03Yep.
03:03For it looks like even Houston late tonight into tomorrow morning,
03:06how many times have you seen thunderstorms, Guy, in your career
03:11that explode along the Gulf Coast during the overnight hours?
03:15It's been numerous.
03:19We'll leave it at that.
03:21But this is the perfect setup for a flash flooding heavy rain event.
03:25You have that stalled boundary.
03:26You have enough, like I said, enough forcing to actually then get the storms
03:31to continue to redevelop and move over the same areas,
03:33and that's what's going to lead to potentially localized higher rain amounts
03:38across an area that would lead to flash flooding in these areas.
03:42You have a good feel for the amount of tornadoes today.
03:45Are we talking, I've been thinking a few to several in that moderate area,
03:50certainly wind and hail and flash flooding are the main threats.
03:53What's your thought on the tornado threat today?
03:55Yeah, specifically on the tornado threat, there will probably be a few around.
04:01I think that's probably going to be about it.
04:04You know, with some of the trends that we've seen, you know,
04:06it's going to be sort of a quick spin-up.
04:08It's not going to be anything that's, you know, going to traverse a long ways.
04:12It's going to be a quick spin-up, not last very long.
04:15So you do want to pay attention if you live in the moderate risk area here.
04:18You do want to pay attention through the afternoon hours
04:20as there will be some severe weather around.
04:23AccuWeather Severe Weather Expert Guy Pearson
04:25joining us from our Severe Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas.
04:29Great insight as always, Guy.