Good afternoon, everyone. Meteorologist Greg Fields, uh, with you.
I do want to update you on what's happening
as far as the rain and storms are concerned.
I do wanna say we don't have anything severe in the area right now.
No warnings out there. No watches either,
uh, for that matter,
but we do have plenty of rain and thunderstorms as kind of back out of the way.
You can see what's ongoing across the area right now.
We do have several flash flood warnings in effect in Dallas County,
included in that as well.
The northern part of Dallas County on up into Collin and Denton Counties as well.
Uh, Cook County still under that flash flood morning.
Those go until two o'clock here this afternoon.
So we've already picked up over an inch and a half of rain could pick
up an additional inch to inch and a half in many places as well.
So please do watch out for that high water.
Now, one area that we have been watching out to our south and west or north and west,
I should say moving southeast into the, uh,
metroplex impacting our northwestern counties is a little
stronger storm pushing in the Jack County,
maybe some hail up to half inch in diameter.
There, some gusty winds around 30
MPH, but that's the strongest, uh,
area of storms that we have out there for right now.
So you see that stretching down from Bowie
back toward Graham, moving out of the Panhandle.
It was a little bit to earlier this morning.
So that's the next batch of showers and storms will be
impacting our areas out north and west of the metroplex.
It may hold together long enough to cause us
some problems as we get into the afternoon.
As far as that, uh, afternoon commute is concerned and, uh,
could see some stronger storms in those areas too a little bit later today.
So this is the broad view of what's happening on radar.
We still have that risk for some severe storms even though we haven't seen that yet.
That potential for some large hail, the damaging wind threat,
tornado threat low today, not zero.
And I think that may be confined to a far southwester counties.
So we'll see what develops as we will have another
batch of storms moving in from the west tonight.
So this is kind of round one and two, so to speak.
I think there will be round three heading on
into tonight with the storms as they begin to
roll into the area and maybe settling down a little bit as we head toward the morning.
Rush tomorrow
and really depending on what happens today,
that's gonna impact maybe the storms that we see for tomorrow.
So that's not a definite tomorrow with the storm chances,
but this is what we're gonna be dealing with
throughout the rest of this afternoon.
And we'll see how these are strong if these storms do get any stronger.
But right now,
so far they have been behaving themselves and we hope that that remains the case.
But again, flooding is gonna be a concern.
We've already had some backups up around the Carrollton area.
But you see where the, uh, green, uh, Polygons are.
That's what we do have several flash flood warnings in effect.
And again, Dallas County,
the northern part of Dallas County included in that and really the eastern
two thirds of Collin County as well where we have seen some rain,
you see plenty of lightning strikes associated with this as well.
And, uh, we've had big delays out at DFW.
I know that's been a big, big issue all week with the rounds of storms that we've had
delays last night looked,
we were able to see from flight where up to
an hour with those delays out at DFW airport,
uh, so far. So those will probably increase too
as we go through the afternoon with the rounds of showers and storms moving through.
But again, no severe thunderstorm warnings and in fact,
no watches out there that may change a little bit later today as well,
especially this evening overnight.
That's what we'll have to watch for that next round of storms to move
in and that may impact areas probably sometime around or maybe just after midnight.
So you'll need to be weather aware throughout the rest of the day,
even though nothing has been severe so far, but just kind of scattered about
with those, uh, showers and storms.
And again,
the strongest part of that line is gonna be out toward
north and west here over the next couple of hours.
But as it pushes a little farther south, that may get a little bit stronger for us,
but it has shown some signs of weakening and hopefully
that trend will continue for us as we get into,
um, the latter half of the afternoon.
But as we head up to, uh, Dallas,
you see the heavy rains moved on out of Dallas right now, Tarrant County,
not picking up a whole lot
in the way of rain. So that is the good news.
But anyone traveling up I 35 to the Red River, gonna run into plenty of rain,
uh, and uh,
wet roads out there and you have to watch out for that
ponding always where we do have those flood warnings in effect.
And even in Denton County,
the rain is tapered off,
but they are included in that flash flood warning that
goes until the early part of the afternoon also.
So there's the handful of, uh, flash flood warnings that we do have Denton County,
uh, Cook County included in that as well.
Collin and Dallas County along with the, uh, Ditton County, uh, area there,
those are the handful of a flash flood warnings that we do have in effect.
So we're just showing your radar here right now just to kind
of give you a broader view of what's gonna be happening.
But again, we do have that level two slight risk for severe storms,
not able to show you that on this, uh o
on this map here for today, just the uh, radar that we're gonna have up here for you.
But we do have that slight risk and remember that's level two on that level of five.
And we're talking about the severe weather risk and hail and
wind gonna be the main concerns here across North Texas.
So make sure you do have that way
to get the warnings that we could potentially see a little bit later today.
That enhanced risk clips our far western southwester
counties as you get out toward Breckenridge in Eastland
in those areas. That's where we do have that enhanced risk.
A slightly higher tornado risk in those areas.
Um, isolated tornado can't be ruled out.
But again, I think around most of North Texas, it is going to be
the hail and wind along with the heavy rain.
So we already have the flash flood warnings in effect.
So that heavy rain, definitely gonna be an issue anywhere.
We do see rain with the rounds of showers and storms that we've been seeing
for the past several days across North Texas.
More of that,
that will just aggravate the flooding problems and we're
gonna keep rain chances in the forecast through about
the end of the end of the week for sure tomorrow.
And then as we get into the upcoming week
too, even though the storm chances will be lower,
we will still have some rain around and again,
upwards of a two to maybe even four inches
in some places before it's all said and done.
Now,
down the road looks like we may dry out a little bit
as we head toward the middle light half of next week.
But until then,
this is what we're gonna be having, uh,
to deal with plenty of rain around there
with that severe weather threat hanging around.
So today, hail and when the main concerns a slight risk for severe storms,
that will be the case for tomorrow.
Then as we get into the weekend, Saturday, still a lower and marginal,
a marginal risk for some severe storms.
That's gonna be level one on that scale from 1 to 5 that we could see some,
uh strong severe storms with coverage will be less.
I think over the weekend, about a 40% coverage Saturday,
30% or so as we get into Sunday and we'll
start to see those temperatures climbing back up is,
uh, as well.
But right now again, nothing severe out there.
The strongest part of this, uh,
cluster of storms gonna be out north and west approaching buoy
right now with that small hail, maybe some winds gusting to 30 to 40
MPH.
But again, no severe thunderstorm warning,
just that flash flood warning that we do
have for a handful of counties including Collin,
the northern part of Dallas and Denton counties as we go through the, uh, day.
So we'll have more for you as we go throughout the day.