The threat of heavy rainfall has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Flash Flood Watch through Thursday morning for a portion of Deep East Texas.
(Explicit language in videos) Scattered storms dotted the East Texas map on Saturday afternoon and evening. Most of those storms provided brief heavy downpours and quite a few lightning strikes, however, a cell that moved through Polk County produced a short-lived tornado.
Saturday afternoon and evening, severe storms moved through Deep East Texas bringing heavy downpours, gusty winds, and reports of pea to marble sized hail.