AUSTIN, Texas — Tropical Storm Alberto formed in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning, making it the first named system of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Alberto officially made landfall Thursday morning in Mexico and will continue to fall apart over land throughout Thursday, and as a result, has since been downgraded to a tropical depression. Although the center of Alberto is more than 600 miles away from Austin, the outer most tropical rain band will continue to bring rainfall through Thursday.
While the heaviest rain has already moved west of the Hill Country Thursday morning, additional scattered showers will be possible for the afternoon. This activity will be hit-or-miss, but where the downpours form there could be locally heavy rain, mainly south of Austin. The overall rain chance on Thursday is about 40%.
More tropical moisture?
We're also tracking the potential of another tropical system that could form in the Bay of Campeche over the next several days. This storm is currently situated over Belize, providing heavy rain there, but the system is slated to move into the Bay of Campeche by the weekend. It has a 50% chance of tropical development over the next week. However, with a heat dome moving through Texas for Saturday and Sunday, expect rain chances to be limited. There is another system set up off the Florida coast and Georgia Bight that has a 40% chance of development by this weekend, but this will not impact Central Texas in any way, shape, form or fashion. The next names on the list are Beryl and Chris.
The bottom line for Central Texas
Although the heaviest rain has already moved west, some additional scattered tropical showers will be possible on Thursday. Some of these showers could contain heavy downpours, but the overall severe weather threat on Thursday is low.
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The KVUE Weather Team will continue to closely monitor this developing forecast.
In the meantime, the extended forecast can be found below:
