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Tornado Watch in effect for parts of Central Texas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A late-evening cold front brings a risk of strong to severe thunderstorms tonight.A Tornado Watch is in effect for only Lampasas County until 8 p.m,. and Williamson, Lee and Milam counties until 1 a.m.We are tracking a much colder airmass surging into Texas tonight. Along its leading edge, we expect a window of potentially strong to severe thunderstorms between now and 1 a.m. Storms are expected to move into the Austin area between 11 p.m. and midnight, then southeastern areas before 1 a.m.Line of storms moves through late tonight into early Friday morningMost of Central Texas remains in at a level 2 out of 5 (slight) severe weather risk this afternoon through Friday morning. Isolated to scattered severe storms are possible with hail and wind damage the main concerns. We do not expect a widespread, damaging severe weather event.Severe weather risk Thursday afternoon to early Friday morning (SPC)Rain totals generally add up to 1/4"-1/2", with lighter amounts in the H...

Buy a piece of Austin history at Nau's estate sale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An estate sale will be held starting Friday through Sunday at Nau's Enfield Drug where several antique collectibles from the store will be available for purchase. The store is located off Enfield Road at 12th Street and West Lynn Street.According to the store’s owner, the Austin location was still be filled with soda fountains, countertops, cash registers, magazine racks, shelving units and more. Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)Nau's to have estate sale for many vintage items (KXAN photo/Christian Marcelli)In the spring of...

Narcan vending machine installed near downtown Austin

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The N.I.C.E. Project (Narcan in Case of Emergency) revealed a new Narcan vending machine installed outside Cenote Coffee Shop on East Cesar Chavez Street.Nice Project ATX installed announced it installed a Narcan vending machine near downtown Austin./ Frank Martinez KXAN NewsNice Project ATX installed announced it installed a Narcan vending machine near downtown Austin./ Frank Martinez KXAN NewsNice Project ATX installed announced it installed a Narcan vending machine near downtown Austin./ Frank Martinez KXAN NewsThe vending machine offers kits with the nasal spray to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses.State and local officials have tried increasing awareness of the potentially life-saving medicine. Austin’s first Narcan vending machine installed; state program gets more of the life-saving medication This is the project's third vending machine in Austin.The first Narcan vending machine was installed in Austin in August 2022.The project previously partnered w...

April showers? Here's the outlook for Central Texas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- As we head deeper into our unofficial severe weather season in Central Texas, the potential for beneficial rain is looking more promising.The latest outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for April finally points towards a wetter-than-normal outlook after several drier-than-normal months in a row. We haven't had a wetter-than-normal month since November 2022.April rainfall outlook (CPC)Now that La Niña has ended, the temperature of the waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific has a much lower impact on the weather we see in Central Texas and indeed North America. Now we look at general pattern variations to give us a better heads-up about medium to long-range changes. BLOG: La Niña has ended — Here’s what’s next and when El Niño could begin While odds favor wetter weather for April, we're still expecting warmer-than-normal temperatures across most of the southern tier of the United States.April temperature outlook (CPC)Last April 2022 was the 6th warmest April...

'Drag Race' royalty asks lawmakers to treat LGBTQ Texans with compassion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thundering applause and cheers erupted Thursday afternoon when one of the winners of "RuPaul's Drag Race" asked a packed ballroom inside the Austin Convention Center to "make some noise for drag." After such a boisterous start to their South by Southwest panel, three alumni from the popular reality competition show — Jaida Essence Hall, Symone and Gottmik — delved into a more serious discussion about the political pushback to drag happening now in Texas and several other Republican-led states. Texas lawmakers introduced several bills this session that target drag performances in the state, including proposals to classify them as a sexually-oriented business akin to a "sex shop" and bar children from attending shows. These efforts mirror legislation that already passed this year in states like Arkansas and Tennessee. Symone, who grew up in Arkansas and won the 13th season of "Drag Race," answered a question about how these legislative proposals are affecting her menta...

Can the Texas Longhorns win March Madness? Hear from national media 'experts,' Gov. Abbott, President Biden

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — What does the national media think of the Texas Longhorns' chances of winning the NCAA men's basketball national championship? Folks who work at ESPN seem to like them.In the Worldwide Leader's stable of college basketball writers, broadcasters and other contributors, 23 of the 42 people who made their Final Four picks public included Texas, and eight have the Longhorns celebrating under the confetti April 3 in Houston. MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stories like these, and sign up for our More than the Score sports newsletter at kxan.com/newslettersThe beloved analyst Dick Vitale is a notable ESPN personality that thinks Texas can get to the Final Four, but he thinks Alabama will win it all. Kris Budden, a sideline reporter who has done a few Texas games this season, is in on the Longhorns winning the national title, as is play-by-play broadcaster Chuckie Kempf and analyst Chris Spatola, among others.Marty Smith mixed in Texas A&M in the Final Fo...

Incoming weather: SXSW and Rodeo Austin prepare

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — People in Austin for South by Southwest are in for a real Texas surprise overnight Thursday into Friday as a front moves through the metro bringing behind it a dramatic drop in temperatures. Though visitors were out in T-shirts and shorts on Thursday, flip-flops will need to go back in the suitcase. Tornado Watch in effect for parts of the Hill Country "The latest that we've heard is that the front will be moving through around 10 to 2 a.m., so we'll be looking at that as sort of our area of concentration, but we're also going to be looking at the drop in the weather, the wind gusts," Tami Richter, a native Austinite and the vice president of event operations with SXSW, said. South by has already moved some of its Thursday events, including its concert scheduled at Lady Bird Lake which will move to the Austin Convention Center. They also say they're keeping an eye out for any events that need to shuffle on Friday due to the cold and wind that comes behind the fron...

LGBTQ+ advocates rally against Texas bills affecting trans people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The LGBTQ+ community and allies rallied outside of the Texas Capitol Thursday morning to speak out against proposed legislation they say would be harmful to transgender Texans.Three bills the group mentioned in particular — SB 14, SB 250 and SB 1029 — were scheduled for a hearing Thursday in the Senate State Affair Committee. SB 1029 aims to restrict access to gender affirming care, allow malpractice lawsuits for care SB 14, authored by Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, would prohibit physicians from giving "procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment" for children under the age of 18. The bill claims that such treatment includes puberty inhibiting drugs, hormone therapy and surgical interventions. "SB 14 is all about child protection," said Campbell during the committee hearing. "Our children need counseling and love, not blades and drugs."One parent, who has a transgender daughter, worries her child will not be able to continue ...

US Marshals arrest Round Rock pawn shop robbery suspect

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The U.S. Marshal Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested a suspect wanted in connection to an aggravated robbery at a pawn shop in Round Rock, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.Jerry Rendon, 38, of Austin, was arrested Thursday morning. A release said Rendon's official charge was aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. On March 13, the Round Rock Police Department responded to the First Cash Pawn, located at 906 N. Interstate Highway 35. There were reports of a man, later identified as Rendon, wearing a mask, holding a handgun and stealing several gold necklaces before he fled the area in a silver Chevrolet pickup truck, according to an affidavit.RRPD was able to identify Rendon as the suspect, and it requested the assistance of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force to assist in capturing him, the release said.Officials found Rendon in the 400 block of East William Cannon Drive in Austin, and he was arrested, the release said.Rendon was taken to the Williamson Coun...

Downtown is getting a new Night Club: It’s an artist-run contemporary gallery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:00 GMT

A contemporary art gallery called Night Club is set to open downtown this weekend as part of a St. Paul Downtown Alliance program to connect new businesses with short-term, rent-free leases.The program, Grow Downtown, launched last year and has so far filled around 18,000 square feet of retail space.Night Club may be new to St. Paul, but the downtown gallery is actually the third iteration of the project founded by artists Emma Beatrez and Lee Noble.The first iteration was, in a sense, a literal night club — an evening extracurricular gathering of students at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, including Beatrez and Noble, all interested in workshopping their interdisciplinary, experimental art.The second came after Beatrez and Noble graduated from MCAD in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, and moved into a house in Minneapolis’ Bryant neighborhood. Covid-19 cases were spiking, and indoor galleries had been shut down. So Beatrez and Noble took advantage of their house’s l...