Meteorologist Michael Crowley

This evening’s severe threat will be shifting east into the I-35 corridor in the next few hours, and a Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued until 1 AM Wednesday morning. This will include the chance for damaging winds as high as 70 miles per hour and very large hail. Already seeing lots of action on radar this evening. I expect this to continue into the nighttime hours.

We've talked enough about the hail and damaging winds. Let's talk about the rainfall we got from this squall line. Honestly, this was a great rain maker. Some locations picked up well over 2 inches and very very few saw no rainfall at all. We never saw any really significant flooding or scary amounts of rain coming down, which is really great news. This will do great things for our drought and our streams and rivers, and both Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis received a tiny bump in levels after tonight's heavy rainfall. We will continue to see more water flow into the lakes over the next few days.

We're getting a lot of rain in a short period of time tonight in Lee county, where 3-5 inches of rain have fallen in just 3 hours with additional rainfall possible over the next few hours. This Flash Flood Warning goes until 2:15 AM. Turn around, don't drown! Especially at night, there is not way for you to tell the difference between a shallow puddle and deep dangerous water. Just stay inside and be lazy.