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HOUSTON — A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Brazoria, Fort Bend and Harris counties until 3 a.m. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 3 a.m. Saturday for Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda and Wharton counties. A flash flood watch remains in effect through Saturday afternoon. Many areas have already seen 2 to 4 inches of rain and an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected. This could…

HOUSTON — A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Brazoria and Fort Bend counties until 2:15 a.m. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 3 a.m. Saturday for Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda and Wharton counties. A flash flood watch remains in effect through Saturday afternoon. Many areas have already seen 2 to 4 inches of rain and an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected. This could cause…

HOUSTON — A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Brazoria and Fort Bend counties until 2:15 a.m. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 3 a.m. Saturday for Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda and Wharton counties. A flash flood watch remains in effect through Saturday afternoon. Many areas have already seen 2 to 4 inches of rain and an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected. This could cause…

KINGWOOD, Texas – Friday’s afternoon strong storms caused flooding and power outages across Kingwood. “Oh, it’s crazy it was raining so hard I couldn’t see my neighbor’s house across the street it was crazy,” Tina Barber said. “I looked up the front door and it was way up over my curb, covered the bottom of my mailbox almost, and we didn’t even flood during Harvey.” Another neighbor, Paul Peterson, who lives in Mills Branch neighborhood…

HOUSTON – A strong line of thunderstorms is moving toward the Houston area Friday night. A tornado warning is in effect issued Harris, Brazoria and Fort Bend counties until 2:15  A.M. A flash flood watch remains in effect for most of southeast Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued of most of southeast Texas until 3 a.m. Saturday. A flood warning was issued for Burleson County from Saturday morning to late Saturday night, or…

LA GRANGE, Texas – A tornado tore through Fayette County Friday morning, devastating parts of La Grange. Fayette County EMS officials said the tornado touched down in the county around 8:30 a.m. First Baptist Church in La Grange received some of the worst damage. “You can see these doors, the force of the wind that pulled these doors out of the locks,” said Jeremy Conard, the worship leader and contractor for the church. The church was…

HOUSTON — Grand Prairie, Texas-based Six Flags Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: SIX) is making its return to Houston this weekend with the opening of a rebranded water park. Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Splashtown, which most recently went by Wet ‘n’ Wild SplashTown, opens for the 2019 season on May 4, according to a press release. The park, at 21300 Interstate 45 North in Spring, will be open only on Saturdays and Sundays until May 24, when…

COLORADO COUNTY, Texas – Colorado County is cleaning up after a possible tornado blew through Friday afternoon. “It was loud. It was scary,” said Darrell Stancik, owner of Furniture Shoppe in downtown Eagle Lake. “A lot of rain, heavy wind, wind kind of slowed down, stopped, changed directions and pressurized the building and the glass blew out here,” Stancik said. He and other business owners were also mopping up water that got into their property…

HOUSTON — Strong storms moved through the Houston area on Friday, bringing with them tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings.  A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect for Harris, Montgomery and Liberty counties until 4:30 p.m. So far, there are no reports of serious damage. A Katy man tweeted video of a funnel cloud in Eagle Lake. KHOU Reporter Brett Buffington spotted a dissipating funnel cloud in Wharton County. At 12:25 p.m., a confirmed tornado…