And thanks for being with us on this
Thursday after nine afternoon for
WFA News at four. I'm Jason Wheeler.
We're starting off today with
meteorologist Pete Delkus because we've
got weather to talk about today. Pete.
We've been looking at this all week.
We knew that this was going to
be the day and and here we are.
Yeah. Tornado watch right now in
effect for you know almost all of
North Texas we have the tornado
watch in effect until 10 tonight.
Western sections of North Texas are under
a severe thunderstorm watch until seven.
So I've, I've mentioned all
week we're going to have two
opportunities for thunderstorms.
Opportunity number one was going
to be just these kind of random or
isolated thunderstorms that we're
going to develop in advance of a
main big line of thunderstorms,
both of which could produce tornadoes,
both of which could produce some
really large hail and certainly
both could produce some 70 mile
an hour winds are stronger. So
and where are we right now
in those opportunities?
We're still kind of in
the middle of all of it.
Opportunity #1 still exists and that won't,
you know that that won't end
until opportunity #2 moves through
and clears everything out which
opportunity #2 is being generated.
A really strong cold front.
I mentioned this last night,
the cold front that's that's moving through
that's generating these thunderstorms.
It's the same one that produced
all of that snow in California.
All of that. The, the, the heavy,
I mean 1234 feet of snow in
California and you know,
several inches of rain.
All the flooding,
all the problems
there. It produced severe thunderstorm
warnings in the Phoenix area
last night too. So.
And still packing a punch,
right? Still packing a punch.
Let me get right to it.
I apologize for blabbing for a minute.
Too long there.
Here's the tornado watch that's until 10:00.
O'clock tonight.
Just wanted to give you some.
On tech. So here we are,
all of North Texas until 10 under a
tornado watch, 10:00 o'clock tonight.
These are the areas off to the northwest
that are under that severe thunderstorm.
Watch until 7:00 o'clock.
Now, right now in Fort Worth,
first of all, the CAP is gone.
That's that warm layer of air aloft that
shuts down or prevents thunderstorms from it.
It doesn't prevent thunderstorms,
but it prevents them from becoming severe.
So that CAP has is it's eroded.
It's completely gone right now, the sunshine.
It's out in Fort Worth, the temp 77.
That sunshine is not good.
It's helping to add to an
already detestable atmosphere.
77 at Fort Worth.
Sunshine at 77 in Dallas.
So the sunshine once again,
not our friend right now.
With the cap gone,
we have enough lift in place for
the we have enough shear in place.
We don't right now have any
trigger to fire up these storms.
We have a little one here on the east side
of Dallas that's trying to get going,
but it hasn't really done anything.
We have had a severe thunderstorm
up in the Sherman Denison area.
That's where we have it.
It's in Grayson County.
That's where we have a severe thunderstorm
warning in effect for about another
28 minutes until 4:30 for Grayson.
This could be producing certainly
some quarter sized hail,
maybe up to some ping pong ball sized hail.
We've seen some reports of that.
That'll move to liberty at 412,
actor 414, Ravina 417.
And then it starts to cross
the Red River and it moves into
wade at 442 smithley at 4:45.
Here's a little Thunder shower
on the West side.
Here's Lake Tawakoni W Tawakoni on
the West side of the lake just to
the east of Rockwall and Royse City.
That's not severe either,
so that's all round one.
If you will,
here's round two off to the West,
there's Breckenridge.
Right now there's a severe
thunderstorm warning and that
big line of storms to the West.
That's the 2nd and final opportunity that
we'll have with severe weather tonight.
That line of storms arrives in Jacksboro
at 447, Mineral Wells at 5:00,
o'clock Lipan 520, Weatherford 530,
Fort Worth at 611, Denton at 619,
DFW at 6:35, Carrollton 648, McKinney at 704.
Garland at 7:10 So what time does it arrive?
I wasn't able to fit Dallas on
on the map here just with with
all these other towns.
So the arrival time for Dallas is
76457 o'clock.
That's the arrive probably about 6:45
in Dallas, about 6:11 in Fort Worth.
The forward speed of these storms is
about 40 to maybe up to 50 miles an hour,
but 4045 miles an hour is the forward speed.
This is a tornado warned storm right now
that is in Breckenridge at this moment.
But we do have a tornado warning
in effect for Stevens County,
including Breckenridge,
a tornado warning for Stevens
County until 4:45.
So right now, as we look at radar,
storm spotters are telling us
that this is this storm right now
is capable of producing not only
this straight line damaging winds.
It's near Lake Daniel right now,
near Breckenridge.
It's moving to the northeast
at 60 miles an hour.
Let's put a quick track on that if we can.
Very quickly.
As this line of storms moves off to the east,
it's moving into an area
that's a lot more conducive.
For rotation aloft.
That's why we have the
tornado watch in effect.
And that's certainly why we have the tornado
warning in effect right now for Stevens,
which includes Breckenridge until 4:30.
If you live there, you need to seek shelter.
It'll arrive in Caddo at
4:14 and Grayford at 4:40.
So that's the latest on the storm.
Here's the line back to the West.
That's where it is at 5.
Let's move forward to six.
I'm going to take you through hour by hour.
Decatur, Granbury, Steven.
They'll see how it's at 6:00.
O'clock.
It's right on the West edge of Parker.
County in Tarrant County,
Wise County and Denton County.
It's up in Cook County at 6:00 o'clock.
Now it's 7:00 o'clock.
There we are.
I mean you're inundated with thunderstorms
by 6:37 o'clock in Fort Worth,
same in Denton down to Cleburne.
Hillsborough,
Meridian here comes into Dallas at
8:00 o'clock tonight and then it's
east to Dallas by 9:00 o'clock.
And then the cold front continues
to move to the east.
Canton Athens at 10:00 o'clock.
Sulphur Springs at 10:11 o'clock.
It's near Tyler.
That's where the cold front is.
Severe weather in front of the cold front.
And then take a look at this.
Winds will start to gust up to 50
miles an hour on the backside of that.
So late this evening, that's what we expect.
Please don't take this too lightly.
A tornado watch in effect right
now until 10:00 o'clock tonight.
Stevens County right now you
have a tornado warning that's
in effect for Stevens County.
That tornado warning is in effect
until 43430 for Stevens County.
Jason, I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
I'll have more in just a few.