India, May 6 -- A tornado watch is in effect for a sizable portion of Texas through Tuesday at 4 p.m. Parts of the Texas Hill Country, the I-35 corridor, and a sizable portion of East Texas are also included in the watch region. The National Weather Service announced on Tuesday that a tornado watch has been issued for 41 counties in Texas.

Along the I-35 corridor, the cities of Austin, San Marcos, and New Braundels are included in the watch area. Hill Country communities such as Fredericksburg, Burnet, and Marble Falls are also added in the list of monitoring areas.

Cities including College Station, Brenham, Conroe, Huntsville, and the Brazos River Valley, as well as Houston, are also included in the tornado watch's eastward extension....