UPDATE, 6:50 p.m.:Â The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for much of Central Texas until 10 p.m. tonight. The alerted area includes all of Bell, Coryell and Lampasas counties.
A cold front that is expected to drop temperatures well below normal may be preceded by another round of potentially severe storms in the Killeen area.
The Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport has recorded nearly a quarter-inch of rain Sunday morning, according to data from the National Weather Service. We have a cold front that s making its way south, said Jason Godwin, meteorologist with the NWS. That front right now is actually just kind of hitting the west side of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex right now. It will probably be getting to the Killeen area around 5 or 6 (p.m.) tonight.
Frequent flashes of lightning brightened the sky Monday evening. Winds gusted as high as 25 mph in some places, and a swift moving storm system dropped more than an inch of rain in less than two hours.
Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport reported a total of 1.1 inches of rainfall from Mondayâs storms that sparked severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado watches across Central Texas.
The Killeen area reported 1.25 inches of rain during last weekâs storms.
Looking ahead, skies should stay sunny or mostly sunny through Friday. Residents could feel wind gusts as high as 30 mph Saturday.
High temperatures should remain in the mid- to upper-80s, the National Weather Service forecast shows.
The National Weather Service is forecasting small chances for rain and thunderstorms Monday night into Tuesday.
The chances are around 30% overnight and into the morning but conditions will clear during the day Tuesday, making way for clear skies and sunny days into next weekend.
During the expected thunderstorms, the wind speeds are expected to be between 10 and 15 mph with gusts up to 20 or 25 mph.
Allison Prater with the National Weather Service said that the rain chances could begin around 7 p.m. Monday with the best chances for rain coming around midnight.
She added that they are not certain as of right now whether or not the storms could turn severe but that they are monitoring the incoming weather.