Thunderstorms with destructive winds and huge hail tore through Texas on May 30, as AccuWeather meteorologists forecasted live.
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00:00 Our top story tonight is the severe weather in Texas. Windblown rain and very large hail
00:05 were captured on video. Listen in here. I'll let you listen in for a second.
00:09 Now the National Weather Service office in Midland, Texas. Again, this was seen earlier on
00:19 as a tornado was reported just south and east of the, again, airport. We're going to check out the
00:26 live view here from Midland right now. And you can see again those very, very heavy rainfall rates
00:31 coming into the area. Temperature-wise, we're into the mid-70s. And again, we're looking still at that
00:36 potential tornado right now. No longer confirmed, but again, there's still the potential we could
00:42 see again a tornado here with this thunderstorm. We've been following this one here for quite some
00:47 time. This has produced, again, huge hail as you saw there in Midland. Again, and also again a
00:52 confirmed tornado earlier on at 517. Again, a view from the National Weather Service in Midland
00:58 of a tornado south of the airport on I-20. Again, I've seen some video surfacing of, again,
01:04 images of the tornado as viewed from the Midland Odessa International Airport from the tarmac. You
01:10 could see it off to the south and to the east. A rather large tornado with that. So we'll go in
01:14 here a little bit closer. This is now Doppler radar indicated saying it's still showing
01:20 rotation. The winds are still spinning within this thunderstorm, but so we're no longer looking
01:24 at a confirmed tornado warning. This is going to be going until 6 30 p.m. for Upton County, Texas,
01:32 and again also for Midland County, Texas. A movement here with this thunderstorm is off to
01:37 the southeast very slowly at about 15 miles per hour. In addition, this can still produce,
01:43 again, up to a baseball to even softball-sized hail. There you see that destructive severe
01:49 thunderstorm warning coming out again. So baseball-sized hail is a possibility here in addition
01:55 to a tornado and very high winds. So triple threats here coming up with this. The thunderstorm will go
02:02 into the overall view in terms of how this is behaving with the winds. I do want to tell you
02:07 that the radar site we're viewing is Midland sitting just off to the north. So as you look at
02:11 the brighter shades of green here, this will be the wind flowing toward Midland. The red's the wind
02:17 blowing away from the radar site. And you can see how we do not have that really tight what we call
02:22 couplet any longer where we see those bright reds matching with those bright greens right next to
02:27 each other. The rotation is broadened out here a little bit. So again, this could be a cycle that
02:32 this severe thunderstorm is going through, or it could be a change against overall structure and
02:38 phase. Regardless, we'll put a track on it here as it's making its way off to the south and the east,
02:42 like I said, roughly at about 15 miles per hour, very slowly here. And again, this is mainly going
02:48 to be out of rural areas, again, of Midland County. No towns in its path over the course of the next
02:56 15 to 30 minutes. So some good news there. But again, we're not out of the woods here just yet
03:01 when it comes to destructive winds as well as very large hail. In fact, I'll put on our storm
03:07 hazards here and look at this hail core, a huge hail core here. I'll zoom into it. And this is
03:13 where we could see up to, again, a three inch plus hail. So we're talking about baseball, a softball
03:20 sized hail here coming in toward a corner windmill. And again, this made its way through,
03:25 again, Warfield earlier on, putting a track on this here right now. So the overall hail core
03:32 itself is sliding its way off to the south and the east as well. Lots and lots of hail with this.
03:38 Huge hail, destructive hail, dangerous hail. So again, if you are in the town of corner windmill,
03:45 again, be taking precautions here as this can produce, again, some very dangerous conditions
03:51 when it comes to some huge hail sizes. It looks like we got another warning coming out here.
03:55 Again, with regards to the severe thunderstorm warning and the tornado warning, we're going to
04:01 work our way here again into southwestern Torrell County, into southwestern Texas. And it looks like
04:07 we have another, again, tornado warning here. So I'm going to expand the view out. This is well
04:12 to the south here. And I'll put our precipitation mode back on here. So this is going to be, again,
04:18 mainly, again, over rural areas of southwest Torrell County. But again, this is going to be
04:24 a confirmed tornado warning going until 630. Thankfully, this is out over, again, rural areas.
04:29 And we're not talking about, again, any communities in its path here. This was located near Sanderson,
04:36 moving south at 10 miles per hour. So I'll go in here a little bit closer. And again, you can see
04:40 the circulation center of this thunderstorm here, roughly right about here, making its move off in
04:46 a southerly direction. A damaging tornado, though. And again, this was, again, weather spotters
04:52 confirmed tornado. And it's making its move here off to the south at roughly about 10 miles per
04:57 hour. And we don't have a radar site this far to the south. I'll see what we can do with our Midland
05:01 radar site and see what kind of visibility that gives us here. And we can see a little bit of the
05:07 structure of this thunderstorm here. But it's making its move off to the south of Sanderson
05:11 right now. So the rotation itself, again, is roughly in about this location right here. And
05:18 it will track this, again, making its move at roughly about 10 miles per hour. So moving pretty
05:22 slowly here. And we'll track it off toward the south. And again, this is going to be making its
05:27 way, again, over rural areas, potentially impacting the town of Mofetta in the next 30 minutes here.
05:34 So be taking your tornado precautions right now as this thunderstorm continues to dive its way down
05:39 in your direction. I do want to show you that we do have, again, some watches that we are following
05:44 right now. Tornado watch goes until, again, 9 p.m. Central time here for Odessa, San Angelo,
05:50 southbound toward Del Rio. A couple of additional boxes here where we can see damaging hail along
05:56 with very high destructive winds.