The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Flooding very likely in Texas as storms continue

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Severe storms expected from Texas to Iowa on Saturday

Eight straight days with notable severe storms, and the stretch is not over yet as more severe storms are expected through the weekend. On Saturday, the severe threat will shift to south Texas with a secondary region along a warm front across Iowa. 

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Flooding very likely in Texas today as severe storms again target central US

It’s been a heck of a week for the nation’s midsection, where severe weather and flooding have been major problems. The risk of both of those remains into the weekend, especially in Texas. The majority of Texas is under threat of flooding rain, but the area of highest concern is across central and southern portions of the Lone Star State.

There’s also a risk of severe weather and flooding across the Upper Midwest, where Iowa appears to have the best chance of seeing inclement weather.

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Things to know

• Understanding flood alerts issued by the NWS
• Trust your gut if multiple weather warnings are issued
• Types of clouds you might see during severe weather

In case you missed it: Damaging twisters, buckets of hail, hurricane season and El Niño

Among the places hit hard by tornadoes this week was Oklahoma, where the town of Cole was hit by a cyclone. It’s the second time Cole has been hit by a tornado in less than a month.

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EF-1 tornado damage found in Noble and Cole, Oklahoma

Scott Gibbons of the McClain County Sheriff's Office said roughly ten structures were damaged in Cole, Oklahoma from a tornado Thursday night. In April, an EF-3 tornado left three dead in McClain County. 

Colorado was among the places that got smacked by severe weather this week. Storms rolled through the Denver area on Wednesday and dropped enough hail to cover the ground in some places.

Hurricane season officially begins on June 1, but it turns out we’ve already experienced our first storm of the 2023 season – in January. The National Hurricane Center said this week that they took another look at a storm that formed in the Atlantic five months ago and determined it was a subtropical storm.

A subtropical storm is seen on satellite in January 2023 as it spins through the North Atlantic Ocean.

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NOAA announced that forecasters are nearly certain an El Niño will develop this year and affect weather across the globe. The phenomenon can influence everything from hurricane season to animal migrations to the number of billion-dollar disasters that happen.

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The meaning of El Nino and La Nina

The status of whether the world is being impacted by an El Nino or a La Nina is determined by water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. (NOAA)

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