Live from Dallas, Fort Worth. This is W FAA News
1130 this Tuesday.
And we're sharing a look at some of the
storm video and damage that many North Texans have woken
up to today as we saw those storms roll
through in the early morning hours bringing strong winds and
quite a bit of rain to North Texas.
We wanna show you some of the flooding we're seeing. This is from Robert Boyd
in New Fairview and my goodness, it looks almost like a river.
It feels like it has a current there to it.
A little bit of rhythm with that water just rushing down the street.
We've talked a lot about the flash flooding risk that folks face this morning.
And here's a live look from our crew monitoring the roadways as well.
This is eastbound on I 30 in Arlington and
a little bit clearer than we've seen already,
but you do see a little bit of precipitation on the camera lens there.
So again,
a reminder that we are not out of the woods yet as we
are still looking at severe storm chances for later on today as well.
So many people woke up without power today or lost it early this morning.
Here's the Encore power outage map.
And right now we're looking at 12,000 outages,
more than 600,000 customers are in the dark and we're already getting reports
that it could take several days for crews to get power restored to
all of the customers here in North Texas.
So we wanna say thank you for sticking with
us into our second half hour here this midday.
I'm DEA W
yeah, and I'm Mark is,
and we wanna get right to our meteorologist, Mario Rez
who has had a very busy morning here on W
fe about six o'clock is when things really went on.
And, uh, boy, you were on the air just from then until gosh, what was it,
10 o'clock and you're back at it, Mario.
Yeah, I mean,
this has had been such an active severe weather season
and this morning was no different between six and about 615
was really when we saw the
highest winds across Dallas County, over 70 mile per hour,
wind speeds will get official confirmations, uh,
from the national weather service here in the next 24 hours or so.
However, there are no active severe storms in the area.
I do wanna let you know that,
but we do still see those storms across southeast and east Texas.
So try to avoid heading in that direction and we do not
have any flash flood warnings in place for Dallas and Tarrant County.
In fact, Denton Collin County
now looking at dry conditions as well as wise and Parker County,
Johnson and Ellis County still under a flash flood warning until noon.
We do see a little bit of a heavy rainfall in
in southern uh
middle, actually middle part of Ellis County
that moderate rainfall continues for Henderson Van Zan County
along with a flash flood warning until 130.
Now, all of this,
like I mentioned continues to move towards the southeast and here's what
you can expect between now and about two in the afternoon,
we'll see the scattered showers really tapering off.
It's going to be windy wind gusts of about 25 to 40
MPH behind this line of showers and storms.
It'll be dry breezy between 2 to 7 in the evening,
seven in the evening to about midnight.
We'll see these storms rolling in from our west.
It's the next round of potential severe weather.
I have a look at what that looks like in timing and the threats in just a bit.
But first, let's go ahead, take a look at our roadways,
another very busy morning in the traffic department.
Most definitely had a number of accidents and I'm finally
starting to get some of those cameras back that were out
just because of the wind and the storms that we experienced this morning.
So here's a look at Farmers Branch.
We've had a lot of problems along 35 and the Farmers branch in Carrollton area.
You can see that traffic is slow moving as it's
trying to merge onto those northbound lanes of I 35.
This is just north of 635 and I 35 that major interchange there.
Here's a look at your map.
So you can see you don't have a lot of congestion,
but you just have a lot of problematic areas.
Good news is I really see people responding when the weather
is like this trying to avoid the roadways if they can.
And so I definitely think that helps when it comes to
just the number of accidents and problems that we have.
As Mariel mentioned,
that system continues to move east and we start to dry out slightly,
but the majority of your roads are very wet still getting reports
of high water at I 35 and Royal doesn't look that bad.
Most of that high water.
A lot of it is ponding on the sides of the
roadways that gather 635 still don't have a camera at Miller,
but we have one south at Gallo
this area again,
another one that has a lot of issues when we get a lot
of rain just as a result of all the road work there.
Now, I don't have a camera at Balch Springs,
but we are having lots of reports of problems there around
I 2175 as a result of high water.
All right, heading out to Love Field, you know,
uh lots of delays at DFW and Love Field.
This is pretty close to it right there.
We're gonna go ahead and join uh Paige mccoy Smith who is joining
us live from Dallas Love Field with more on the impact there.
Paige.
Hey, looks like things have kind of slowed down here at Love field.
Looks like things are almost back to normal, but don't let that fool you.
We're still seeing a lot of delays when it comes to departures,
not so much on the arrival side, but departures in particular, pay attention to,
for example,
if you are heading to Albuquerque and you had a departure
date of 1240 we'll look again now it's at 245.
Also,
if you are going to Chicago and your departure time
was at 1155 guess what that flight has been canceled.
And the reason why these cancellations are occurring are have less to do
with the different airlines and much more to do with air traffic control,
they control it when, when there are weather issues,
they determine which flights are going to be delayed,
which flights will be on time and which flights will be canceled altogether.
So those are things that you need to check on
regardless of the different airline that you might be flying.
It is really something you need to make sure before you hit the roads
and deal with streets and the traffic that you've been hearing about that.
You know, exactly when your departure time is going to be.
What is currently, what it, what it, what it is now,
make sure you've got your devices handy.
All right, I'll send it back to you DEA.
All right. Thanks for that page.
We wanna get a look at some of the damage we're seeing across North Texas right now.
We have our Cleo Green joining us live from Dallas and Cleo.
You've been out all morning in front of that huge mess behind you off Harry Hines.
Yeah,
ho ho honestly, you know, as I said, a lot of people are stopping, they're driving by,
they're stopping to take pictures and video
of the damage here to the Rainbow hardware store off of Harry
Hins Boulevard. It's quite a mess.
As you can see, I've been showing all morning long that
the roof, it really just peeled off here and it's in layers.
There's the shingles,
there's this soft tarp here and then some foam board that really just, just
tore apart in pieces and it's
all scattered along this parking lot.
I'll have a photographer kind of show you around here.
It is a mess as you can see that foam board all over the parking lot here.
Now, I got a chance to speak to the owners. They're in shock. They're sad.
Of course, this is a huge hit to them. They've been here since 2013.
Let's give you a look inside.
If you missed us in the first half hour,
it's dark inside of this huge hardware store and here's what's left of the roof.
All you can see is wood plywood. It's also drenched
and you can really see the sky from some areas.
Now, the entire floor it's covered with water from the rain.
Once again,
we didn't walk around too much because it is wet
and then the electricity is an issue as well.
I got a chance to speak to Puoi.
She and her husband, they own this spot.
She was actually driving to the store around six this morning when it
started to pour and then those straight line winds picked up as well.
She said it was like something out of a movie.
This was the first like scary experience I had ever. But I've seen in the movies,
like, to be very honest, I've seen all this in the movies and
like when I was driving, I, I was not sure whether I'll reach or not,
it was too hard.
So, I mean, I was standing outside also, my car was like, I,
I hope I thought that it will blow, it will go with the wind.
But like,
but, you know,
she's just thankful that she's all right.
As I said, she and her husband, they have been outside talking to us,
they've been walking around the building and
they're in shock. They're sad. This is a major hit to their business.
They're probably going to be out of business for a few months.
They told me because not only do they need to
replace the roof here but all of the supplies in
side.
So, just, just a sad story there.
But once again,
they're just thankful that they're all right because they were outside.
They were here
as those straight line winds picked up in the midst of that storm mark.
I'm going to send it back to you quite a story out here.
It really is Cleo and thank you for bringing it to us. And we also want to share some
video from Hirsch.
This is a Walmart there yesterday.
The woman who shared this video says hail was falling through
the roof of that store causing it to break may also
have been that the hail could have impacted some of the
material inside there and caused that to fall as well.
But you see people inside that Walmart and
Hs covering their heads as that precipitation fell as well.