{"id":27939,"date":"2013-05-21T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=27939"},"modified":"2013-05-22T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:25:13","slug":"severe-weather-likely-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/05\/21\/severe-weather-likely-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather Likely in Texas Into Tuesday Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27951\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/05\/21\/severe-weather-likely-in-texas\/oklahoma-tornado-aftermath\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27951\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27951\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/05\/14841541_H22432371-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/05\/14841541_H22432371-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/05\/14841541_H22432371-620x393.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">ED ZURGA\/EPA \/LANDOV<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma Monday. Weather forecasters anticipate more severe weather will hit Central Texas on Tuesday afternoon and evening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A day after a massive tornado ripped through Central Oklahoma, the National Weather Service predicts severe storms will move across a swath of Central and North Texas Tuesday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>There is potential for tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Weather Service&#8217;s Fort Worth office recorded 55 mph winds early Tuesday afternoon, according to the Service&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSFortWorth\">Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Central Texas there could be isolated chances of tornadoes, said Mark Lenz, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main threat is large hail, golf-ball size or larger,\u201d Lenz told StateImpact Texas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Oklahoma, Monday&#8217;s tornado was the second major twister in recent history to hit Moore, <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/40\/4049200.html\">population 56,315<\/a>. In 1999, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/a-survival-plan-for-americas-tornado-danger-zone\/?gwh=69F409FEE9FFC2916C66FA410AE03486\">strongest tornado ever recorded<\/a>, the so-called Moore Tornado, devastated the town and killed 44 people. The 1999 tornado registered as an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Learn about the Enhanced Fujita Scale <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/05\/21\/what-is-the-enhanced-fujita-scale-for-measuring-tornados\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Texas \u2013 barring damaging tornadoes and hail &#8212; much of the state could use a good soaking. As of mid-May, 97 percent of the state is in <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?TX,S\">some form of drought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the thunderstorms passing through Texas Tuesday afternoon could produce one to two inches of rain per hour, said Lenz.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, even if strong storms pass over Central Texas and drop several inches of rain, it won\u2019t put much of a dent in the ongoing drought. For that \u201cwe need a prolonged wet period to get that runoff to replenish the lakes,\u201d Lenz said.<\/p>\n<p>Central Texas\u2019 two major reservoirs, Lakes Travis and Buchanan, have been steadily depleted over the past months and now sit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcra.org\/\">39 percent full<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>David Barer is a reporting intern with StateImpact Texas.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a massive tornado ripped through Central Oklahoma, the National Weather Service predicts severe storms will move across a swath of Central and North Texas Tuesday afternoon and evening. There is potential for tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Weather Service&#8217;s Fort Worth office recorded 55 mph winds early Tuesday afternoon, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":27951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28035,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939\/revisions\/28035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}