KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Our weather pattern hasn’t changed but today most of us got a break from the healthy afternoon storms. The upper level flow remains from the north-northwest with storms over the last few days emanating from the High Plains and then dropping to the Gulf Coast. Another storm complex that was in Nebraska last night has been heading our way with the remnants over the NW part of the state as of late this afternoon. Storms have sparked off this evening in Allen and Jeff Davis Parishes and may continue to build to the southeast across portions of Acadiana during this evening…thus we’ll go with a 30% chance of storms through about 10:00pm-11:00pm. While the models are not capturing this weather pattern well the forecast will keep the chance of showers and storms through the end of the week, into the weekend and into at least early next week. The timing and intensity of these disturbances rolling out of the Plains is nearly impossible but our best rain chances will likely be during the afternoon and evening hours. This weekend there is some evidence of increased instability so count on some healthy storms.