Cool & dry Friday

A soggy Saturday and a severe weather & flood threat Sunday

Friday’s forecast:

We have a beautifully cool day ahead with temperatures climbing to the upper 50s and maybe a 60 or two this afternoon.

Cloudy and cool Friday with rain chances starting on Saturday (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Soggy Saturday, severe & flood threat Sunday:

An area of low pressure will bring rain on Saturday. Most of the showers will fall in the morning. Sunday is the day we need to pay attention to. We now have a severe weather threat as well as a higher street flooding threat.

Possible storm location 4pm Sunday (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
Hail, damaging winds, and a tornado or two is possible (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
A threat of flooding Sunday for all of southeast Texas (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

10-day forecast

After this weekend, the rain sticks around. A series of storm systems will move through southeast Texas every day through Thursday morning of next week.

Cloudy and rainy weekend ahead of a mostly rainy and cool week (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Tuesday’s Severe Storms:

It was an active severe weather day Tuesday with several confirmed tornadoes that caused damage throughout SE Texas. The National Weather Service is conducting damage surveys to determine the strength of the tornadoes.

Initial Tornado Damage Assessment:

The National Weather Service has assessed that areas in SE Houston including Pasadena, Deer Park into Baytown/Ship Channel were hit by a tornado that maxed out as an EF-3 tornado with maximum winds of 140mph. Other areas in Pasadena saw EF-1 and EF-2 damage.

Tuesday Tornado Path (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
Preliminary Tornado Rating From NWS (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

We saw severe storms, gusty winds and flooding rainfall. Within the areas of heaviest rainfall was a record of 4.04″ at Bush/IAH. There will likely be several more recordings of record rain.

It can clearly be seen where the heaviest rain fell on Tuesday within a six hour period. (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

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