NATO watch continues across all of
North Texas until 8:00 o'clock tonight.
Right now the Metroplex is fairly quiet
this western side of Tarrant County.
You are now under a severe thunderstorm.
Warning, we have one heck of a
thunderstorm in Tarrant County right now.
Golf ball sized hail has been reported.
It's been confirmed in Tarrant County
or I should say in Parker County
Golf ball sized hail. So Parker,
Tarrant and the southern section of wise,
this sliver of Wise County including Rome,
you're under that thunderstorm
warning until 4:00 o'clock.
Now remember anytime.
In North Texas,
many municipalities when there's a
tornado watch in effect like there is
right now for all of North Texas and
a severe thunderstorm warning that
triggers the storm sirens in many areas,
they're not tornado sirens anymore.
That was when I was a kid.
That's been 100 years ago.
Now there's storm sirens,
they're sounded for large hail
damaging large hail.
They're also sounded for 60 to 70
plus mile an hour winds and certainly
they're sounded for tornadoes.
So no longer tornado sirens,
they're now storm sirens.
Keep that in mind if you have
sirens going off in your. Community.
And right now, I do know that in Hudson Oaks,
Willow Park and Aledo,
there are alerts that are going
out to those communities.
So again,
there's the warning that's in effect.
I want to zoom in right now into Parker.
So this is just north of Weatherford.
And I mean,
we have a heck of a thunderstorm
with a little bit of a notch
right now on this storm.
So let me, let's show you that.
On our tower Cam,
we have a classic supercell
thunderstorm out here.
This is the we have the rain and the hail as
we move this camera around just a little bit.
The rain and the hail there.
And as we go back to that,
I want to put a track on this storm because
as that storm moves off to the West,
moving to the east,
I should say at about 45 to 50 miles an hour,
the forward speed,
this thing is just racing along.
It'll be in Springtown.
It's there now.
Aisle 338, briar, 342 Pecan Acres,
346 River oaks, 350.
Saginaw 351, Downtown, Fort Worth 357.
So that's not too too far away.
The Haltom City 359,
Keller 402, Roanoke 406,
Bedford 408 and South Lake at 4:11.
When it arrives I'm looking at some really,
really large hail golf ball
size up to ping pong ball size.
Hail is a possibility with this storm.
Right now I'm getting some reports
of a 3 inch two to three inch size.
Meteorologist Jesse Wheeler.
Jesse, check my chart.
3 inch in diameter hail.
That's the size of that's baseball size.
So we're looking at tennis ball,
the baseball size,
hail with the Super cell thunderstorm
that's in central Parker County.
We've moved our camera around just a bit.
This is the base of the thunderstorm,
this supercell thunderstorm that towers
up over 40,000 feet above the surface.
We're looking at a thunderstorm,
a severe thunderstorm in
Jack Montague Wise County.
This is northern Wise County.
This is in effect this
thunderstorm warning until 4:15.
And these are the Super cells that
have originated off of a dry line.
Back to our to the West of
the Dallas Fort Worth area,
western sections of North Texas.
The second line of storms
forming along that cold front.
So there we are, Metroplex covered up
with thunderstorms at 5:00 o'clock.
Not 100% coverage,
but thunderstorms right now in the
Metroplex 4:00 to 5:00 o'clock.
Here's the timing at 6:00 o'clock.
They become even more widespread
by 6:00 o'clock.
Seven o'clock.
The cold front has passed by DFW.
Once the cold front moves
through your location,
the severe threat will end up.
Abruptly, but look at the
thunderstorms at 7 at 8:00 o'clock.
There's the activity at 9:00 o'clock
from Mahaya to Athens to Tyler to
Gilmer to Mineola and then by 10:00
o'clock North Texas is in the clear.
But we are looking at
right now very large hail.
With these thunderstorms
across the area in Weatherford,
I'm getting confirmed reports of
of golf ball close to tennis ball
sized hail that's confirmed on the
north side of Fort Worth right now.
And then here's what happens.
We're looking at wind advisory
that goes into effect.
5:00 o'clock tonight.
That's for all of North Texas.
So strong winds,
20 to 50 mile an hour winds and a
freeze in the forecast by Saturday
morning possible in the Metroplex,
most likely for areas to the north.
And then Sunday morning there's
where it's most likely possible
across the Dallas Fort Worth and
then not likely to the South.
But remember I have a right now a hail core,
a thunderstorm in Montague County
that right now appears as though
it's producing hail that's the size
of an inch and 1/2 in diameter.
So it's not just Parker County
soon to be moving.
And deterrent county large hail.
It's just a couple of thunderstorms.
They will create a lot of problems.
Make sure you stay with us W FAA at
four starts in about 25 minutes.
We'll see you then.