Live from Dallas Fort Worth. This is W FAA news
as we come on the air this midday storms once again,
firing up across North Texas moving in from our northwest.
You can see a live picture from Dallas Baptist
University here in Dallas and a very active radar
there to the right hand side of your screen.
Now, look,
we have crews out monitoring those road conditions
for you as well driving across the area.
This is a live look at I 35 in Carrollton. What you don't wanna see.
Yeah, almost like a parking lot. Ok. Traffic at a standstill uh traffic anchor,
Sasha Wilson also here with me in studio with
what you need to know about that situation.
Welcome to midday. I'm Tasha
Parker. More storms moving in now. So we wanna start with meteorology,
Greg Phils. We were talking about not only the radar but also uh DFW International.
Those slow downs out there. What's going on?
It's been a mess out there as we know this week with the storms,
it looks like that's starting again.
We talked about it earlier this morning with those delays out at the airports and we
are seeing those delays taking you out to DFW with the showers and storms moving in
and you can see the, uh,
planes kind of lined up there on the tarmac up to 30 minutes now.
But those will be increasing, uh, with the, uh,
storms across the area here right now, 77 degrees you see out at the airport.
So let's go to radar and let you know what's happening out there right now.
A new flash flood warning for Collin and Denton County,
you can see the storms moving right into a Dallas right
now up toward Carrollton getting on into Collin County as well,
but we'll kind of zoom in on Dallas right now.
You can see the thunderstorms from University
Park all the way back down to Duncanville.
So they're moving through Dallas County right now,
sliding on up into a Collin and Denton counties.
We do have that flash flood warning in effect there.
We've already seen an inch and a half of rain.
Probably another inch and a half to two inches is gonna be possible.
And you see that, uh,
flash flood warning goes until two o'clock here this afternoon and we
will slide a little farther north up along the Red River.
Also a flash flood warning for Cook County
that also goes until 130 here
this afternoon.
So also an inch and a half or more has already fallen
could get upwards of another two inches of rain as well.
So we do have the flash flood warnings outside of that,
no severe thunderstorm warnings,
maybe some small hail with any stronger storms that we do have.
But we do have another cluster a little farther out to the west,
pushing out of the Panhandle that may begin to impact areas
out toward the Graham and Breckenridge here after midday today.
So we'll watch that as well. But again, no severe thunderstorm warnings in effect,
no watches either right now.
But we'll watch these, uh,
showers and storms as they start to get going across the area.
So here's how things may look as we head into the afternoon hours,
still gonna have some rain and storms.
I think around as we head home a little bit later this afternoon,
but it should begin to taper off a little bit.
The storms maybe not going away entirely,
but they will wane some as we get into
the evening hours and then we'll focus our attention out
to the west as we'll have that next batch of
storms moving in as we head closer to midnight.
Now,
we do have that slight risk for strong severe
thunderstorms even though we haven't seen that yet.
As we get into the afternoon hours today, the large hail,
the damaging winds and that enhanced risk can't rule
out an isolated tornado or two in those areas.
So, as you make plans for the rest of today,
we're looking at showers and storms likely between now and
say early mid afternoon hours heading into the early evening,
then it begins to taper off a little bit as we head toward the evening hours.
So we'll have more, uh,
rounds of showers and storms as we get into Friday on into Saturday as well.
So we'll talk more about that.
But now let's get back out to, uh, Chris Soy.
You're live there up in Carrollton. Kind of stuck in that backup Chris.
What can you tell us?
Yeah, Greg. It is not pretty if you're on I 35 northbound going through Carrollton.
This is what we are sitting in right now.
We did hit that weather that you were talking about when it passed through.
It was a lot of heavy rain.
It was some loud claps of lightning and thunder and now the rain is gone,
but the issues it causes on the road remain.
We have seen some emergency vehicles arriving and everybody
not moving very fast at all.
The weather has passed through.
But if you are planning on getting out on the road,
the roads will still be slick and they will be
likely congested, especially if you're heading on 35.
Just because when we get that little bit of rain, it tends to slow everything down.
So we will monitor the situation
out here on the roadways, Stacia. I know you're doing the same in the studio.
All right. Thanks Chris. Yeah.
Unfortunately, I think you might be stuck in that traffic for a while.
Here's a look at what you're dealing with along I 35 north found at Dickerson.
So you have an 18 wheeler that has just blocked all the main lanes there.
You do have the express lanes open.
Uh, but now that was the last time I checked,
it's possible they may have even closed off a portion of
that as they're trying to figure out how to clear this.
We're gonna keep you updated on that situation.
I wanna go ahead and show you the location starting with our traffic map.
The areas of red you're seeing are the areas where traffic obviously moving slower.
Let's go ahead and add the radar to that and you can see
obviously the weather definitely impacting the areas
where you have slower moving traffics.
That accident happened in Carrollton again,
I 35 E northbound right there at Dickerson.
That storm system had just passed through and now
this 18 Wheeler is blocking all the main lane.
So it does look like uh yeah, it could be.
Well, obviously, before they get that cleared out other areas,
we're seeing problems south of that along 183 westbound at loop 12,
you can see a lot of ponding on the
roadways there that's not really slowing things down,
but it's just another afternoon that we're leading into that you're gonna
have rain conditions and road conditions that are affected as a result.
I also want to just take a closer look
at kind of where you're seeing that storm system.
So it's also affecting
areas in Ditton 380 prosper, Da uh Dallas,
North Tollway and Frisco getting a lot of rain there,
then it's moving towards central Expressway.
Uh, again, if you're going outside, I would definitely wait until you,
uh, have a safer option as far as the weather. That might be a little while.
But it is definitely, uh, a day where you're gonna wanna watch your speed and be safe.