A storm system will bring heavy weather through Saturday and into Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service in Morristown.
Heavy winds arrived early Friday morning and will continue into Saturday morning, bringing a wind advisory to the upper mountains. Steady winds are expected to be 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph expected. A wind advisory will be in effect until 7 a.m.
The strongest winds will be Friday night. The wind will be joined by multiple rounds of showers and storms with the heaviest rain being Saturday to Saturday night.
Localized flooding will be possible.
Lower elevations in the Lakeway Area will get up to 2 inches or rain with higher elevations expecting an inch to an inch and a half.
The heavy weather arrives in the Lakeway Area after powerful thunderstorms rumbled across Texas, delaying holiday travel some flights were delayed or canceled in Texas on Thursday after a line of thunderstorms started moving across parts of the state in a system the National Weather Service predicted could bring high winds, hail and possible tornadoes.
Nearly 90 flights were delayed and more than two dozen cancelled at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport early Thursday. Delays and thunderstorm-related cancellations also were reported at Dallas69制片厂制作传媒 Love Field and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, according to FlightAware, an aviation company that tracks flights across the world.
The greatest weather risk was forecast for a stretch of Texas east of Dallas, between Houston and portions of southern Arkansas and western and northern Louisiana, said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service69制片厂制作传媒檚 Weather Prediction Center.
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Hurley said the storms will likely push into southern Arkansas and western and northern Louisiana after dark, posing a potentially dangerous situation for holiday travelers.
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