It’s another busy day watching for severe weather in Texas Friday, with risk of large hail, isolated tornadoes and damaging wind gusts in west Texas as parts of east Texas still deal with flash flooding.
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More severe storms, tornadoes roll through Texas
For more than a week, relentless severe weather has been plaguing states across America. That trend continued on Thursday, with nearly 100 reports of severe weather, most of which were focused in Texas. The worst of the storms impacted rural towns such as Hawley and Hamlin in the west-central part of the state. Videos showed significant tornado damage outside the town of Hawley where storm chasers were going through debris looking for victims.
Tornado seen in Texas from the town of Hawley
(City of Hawley / FOX Weather)
Severe storms continue Friday, Saturday
The current stretch of severe weather looks like it will come to an end this weekend, but only for a day. The worst storms are expected in Texas on Friday and Saturday. However, the central U.S. will finally get a break Sunday before the next severe weather threat targets the region starting Monday.
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Flooding prompts calls for evacuations in Texas
Torrential rain that fell on Southeast Texas on Thursday is now rushing into rivers and creeks that have already been swollen by recent upstream rains. Some people who live along the San Jacinto and Trinity rivers have been asked to leave as officials worry they’ll be cut off by rising water.
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Watch this: Drone video shows home surrounded by water
The impact of the flooding was evident in aerial video taken in Livingston, Texas.
Drone video shows mile after mile of Livingston, Texas literally underwater. The white boxes are not floating in a river but U-Haul trucks in the flooded parking lot.
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