Texas Storms Tonight: 70+ MPH Winds, Flooding & Heat

[00:00:00]Thursday afternoon, the 18th of June, 2026. I'm Texas Storm Chasers Baldy, chief David Reimer, and guess what? It is really, really hot out there today across the state of Texas. Unless you're up in the Panhandle, where temperatures are in the 60s and 70s, y'all are not on my nice list today. Y'all start sharing that cold weather, y'all. But guess what?

[00:00:21]Heat index values, that's what you're looking at here on the map. How about 127 in McAllen? Yeah, that's real.

[00:00:28]Triple-digit temperatures with dew points in the 80s, obnoxiously, ridiculously, dangerously hot heat index values. Triple-digit heat index values near 110 all the way up I-35 through North Texas. But guess what? I'm not making this video just to yippity-yap about how stinking obnoxiously, unpleasantly hot it is. I'm actually here because we have the risk of thunderstorms now, and that risk has increased a bit. So, let's talk about it. We have now a level two out of five risk for scattered severe thunderstorms this evening and overnight into Friday morning. That's going to be across North Texas, the Big Country, the Concho Valley, including the DFW Metroplex, Abilene, out to areas just south of Wichita Falls, San Angelo, Fort Hood, Killeen, into the northern Hill Country. The most intense storms will have the potential of producing pocket-change size hail and locally damaging wind gusts over 70 mph.

[00:01:23]Given how hot it is, if we actually do have a sustained damaging wind threat evolve, we could be talking about some really high wind gusts out there, capable of producing quite a bit of wind damage, but on a localized scale. That's tonight through tomorrow morning.

[00:01:38]Welcome to summer. With that, all the tropical moisture in place, it will not take much to get locally heavy rainfall that will have a risk of resulting in flash flooding. So, we have that risk outlined the Hill Country, Concho Valley, Big Country, Texoma, North Texas. You might be asking, "Well, Mr. Baldy man, here we are approaching 5:00 p.m. and it's still drier than a popcorn fart. Well, guess what? That's cuz this is an overnight event. Yep. We're going to see the potential for scattered storms firing up through the remainder of the late afternoon and this evening from the Big Bend, Concho Valley, Western Hill Country, Big Country, North Texas, Texoma. You could see storms may not even get going till about 7:00 8:00 9:00 p.m., but if they get going, we're going to be dealing with them all night because it's June. It feels like the Gulf outside, which means the atmosphere's plenty unstable through the entire night. So, storms will generally move off slowly to the east and with that, strongest storms could have damaging winds, a obnoxious amount of cloud-to-ground lightning, even more obnoxious than my behavior this afternoon here on this video. And then guess what?

[00:02:43]Heavy rain, flooding, someone could get over 5 in of rain lickety-split just because that's how much moisture we have. Most folks, you're not going to have to deal with this, but North Texas, DFW, Abilene, Big Country, Concho Valley, San Angelo, even into parts of the Hill Country, maybe western parts of Central Texas and Northwest Texas, you may have to deal with some thunderstorms overnight into Friday morning. And with that, lightning is frightening.

[00:03:10]If thunder roars, get your keister indoors. Be mindful that with so much moisture in place, we could get some very heavy rains with flooding, street flooding, rapid onset flooding on creeks, streams, and rivers. And of course, those strong to damaging wind gusts. We'll be here keeping an eye on things. We'll have chasers out and about in the Big Country, North Texas overnight, and you know, we'll be here for you with the latest Texas weather information. You can always get your local weather forecast, current weather conditions, and more in the free Texas Storm Chasers mobile app. That's it.

[00:03:41]Thanks for watching. Y'all have a great evening, and here's hoping you don't have to deal with stormies. Until then, stay cool and God bless.

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