Storm threat increases tonight with risk of damaging winds, hail

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]And now, >> [music] >> First Warning Weather with Meteorologist Brad Sowder.

[00:00:06]Howdy, everybody. Let's look here at the Raul B. Rodriguez Law Camera downtown, and it is quiet. You know, we're going to have a day today that's not going to be all that active until maybe this evening. So, we'll talk about that. 20% chance of some rain today. Yeah, the chance is very low during the day. It comes up tonight. I'll show you that in just a second. And then, rain chances during the days over the next several I think a lot of this is probably going to be mostly at night, but I can't pinpoint the exact arrival just yet. So, basically, I'm highlighting the 50, 60, 70, 80% chances of given in that day time to evening time period. So, with some of the chances maybe a little higher at night, all right? So, just note that and the fact that it's going to rain a lot, all right? And you're going to have to plan around it. Have our weather app running for all of your plans for Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, Monday is Memorial Day. I know, right?

[00:01:06]It's already coming at you. Here is the outlook of storms for today or tonight. It's late today. Going to be this evening. It's a level two risk of severe weather. Temperatures right now coming in with the 70s.

[00:01:21]Want to show you this now.

[00:01:22]Radar, big old storms happening there, pushing offshore, and the lightning strikes. And what was wild about this is here just a little while ago, there were lightning strikes. You might see them in Bear County. And even though the storm was way far away. It was 120 miles away, and I've never seen lightning crawl across the sky this far. In fact, as I was driving in this morning, I caught it with my my dash camera. Uh as it gets back to the beginning, this right here, watch.

[00:01:54]Right there. You see that? That was 120 miles away and it crawled all the way in the North San Antonio and it thundered.

[00:02:04]You could hear the thunder. Looks like I'm going five or six over.

[00:02:08]Okay. Yeah, not allowed that. All right, here we are looking at the well, the bigger picture here showing some scattered showers out there farther off to the north, but later on today we will have some storms. Let me show you the timeline of all of this here. So, looking at the storm complex there at 7:00, 8:00 tonight. Yeah, big storms.

[00:02:32]These could have a lot of wind with them, okay? Maybe some hail. So, yeah, could be at some thunder keeping the baby awake at 10:00 tonight, but most activity should be done by midnight, okay? There could be some of that rumbling after midnight, but most of the activity looks to go on away. But, more storms down the road. That is your forecast. Thanks for watching.