HOUSTON – Thursday was a day of wild weather across the Houston area with several tornadoes confirmed.
Friday is calm, but we have yet another chance for a few severe storms on Saturday.
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The threat for Houston looks lower than it was on Thursday, but the potential is there for all modes of severe weather, including large hail, damaging winds, and perhaps a tornado or two.
The greatest risk for severe weather will be across Louisiana and Mississippi.
Saturday risk
Parts of the Houston area have been placed in a slight risk of severe weather on Saturday. An approaching cold front will trigger the development of thunderstorms. Places to the east across Louisiana and Mississippi will be dealing with a fairly significant risk of tornadoes.
For us in the immediate Houston area, the threat appears to be less, but it is still there. A few showers and thunderstorms will probably be ongoing in the morning, especially to the east and along the coast.
By noon Saturday, more showers and storms will develop across the area. Near the Louisiana border, this model shows strong storms firing up. These storms could be supercells capable of producing all modes of severe weather. A few of the models show these storms firing up closer to the Houston area. This remains to be seen as to where and if these storms fire like the models suggest, but any storm that fires ahead of the cold front will need to be watched closely for the chance of severe weather.
Our severe weather threat will come to an end in the mid-afternoon as a cold front moves through. We could see a broken line of storms on the cold front. These storms, if there is any on the front down here, will have a much lower threat of producing severe weather than if a storm were to fire ahead of the cold front.
In summary, the greatest severe threat will be to the east of Houston. However, areas near Houston will still need to keep their eyes to the sky just in case any stronger storm were to fire up in the area.
Past Saturday, we should have several days of pleasant weather before slight rain chances return for New Years Day.
