{"id":921547,"date":"2026-06-17T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/921547\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:33:36","slug":"tropical-storm-arthur-moves-along-texas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/921547\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Arthur moves along Texas coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Tropical Storm Arthur has formed, prompting forecasters to issue a Tropical Storm Warning for parts of the Texas Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arthur is the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. Previously, it had been designated Potential Tropical Cyclone 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the National Hurricane Center, Arthur will move over parts of the Texas coast before heading to its ultimate destination \u2013 Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AL01 Cone.png\"\/>The forecast cone for PTC 1.<br \/>(FOX Weather)<br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In addition to Texas, tropical storm alerts have also been issued for coastal areas of Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AL01 Alerts.png\"\/>Tropical storm alerts have been issued for PTC 1.<br \/>(FOX Weather)<br \/>\u00a0 Deadly flooding remains threat in Texas <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arthur is expected to dump flooding rain along the Southeast Texas coast as it moves past the region.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Weather Prediction Center has placed parts of the Texas Gulf Coast in a Level 3 out of 4 flood threat through at least Thursday morning. This includes the Houston region.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WED South Flash Flood Outlook.png\"\/>The flooding threat zone associated with Arthur.<br \/>(FOX Weather)<br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Flood watches and warnings have been issued by National Weather Service for coastal areas of Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Forecasters are warning of 5-10 inches of rainfall with some spots getting as much as 20 inches of rain through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/South Flood Alerts.png\"\/>The flood alerts for the Gulf Coast.<br \/>(FOX Weather)<br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/texas-driver-dies-after-vehicle-is-swept-away-fast-moving-floodwaters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">At least two people in Texas have already died<\/a> in flash flooding caused by the disturbance as it moved across Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It is never safe to drive through water covering a roadway. Remember the adage: Turn around, don\u2019t drown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from NOAA, the National Hurricane Center, the Weather Prediction Center and the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\/hurricanes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\/tropical\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\/tropical-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Tropical Storm Arthur has formed, prompting forecasters to issue a Tropical Storm Warning for parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[7,221,253,2368,10606,6,21008,222,123030,123031,1461,800,1952],"class_list":["post-921547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-hurricanes","tag-nfl","tag-severe-weather","tag-texans","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-weather","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116766887487638666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}