We are kicking things off with a live
look at our tower Cam out in Weatherford.
You can see all of those
clouds there in the distance.
Chief meteorologist Pete Delkus
is with us this afternoon.
And Pete you warned us between
4:00 and 8:00 PM was when we wod
start to see things fire up.
And it looks like that's holding true.
My hope was we were wrong.
Unfortunately, you know when you have
a dry line and you have all thee
ingredients in place and the cold front
moving in and it's it's March in Texas.
It is springtime. This is what happens.
This is what happens.
Let me see do we have it up?
I wanna do this.
I wanna go to this picture.
This is what's happening.
This is just a couple of minutes ago.
So, you know, last night, the dy
before I was talking about large hail.
It could be up to the size of tennis balls.
That's some tennis ball size ha.
So we've had a lot of reports.
This is a Bamberg sent us this,
this is, this is in Weatherford or just
I think on the north side of to.
So there we are.
It's a really, really big hail.
It's interesting when I watch,
look at these hailstones and
you see what we have happening,
how they're all different,
but all of North Texas right no.
I mean the areas to the southeat
of North Texas,
southeastern section of North T,
not under the tornado watch,
everybody else is under the
tornado watch into the matter.
And we have one severe thunders.
It's a super cell thunderstorm t
has now moved into Tarrant Coun.
So Tarrant County,
Parker County as well you are,
it's really just this Far East
side of Parker County that's
under a thunderstorm watch intoa
thunderstorm warning until 4:30,
all of Tarrant County except ths
far southern section of Tarrant,
the rest of Tarrant County,
you're under a severe thunderst.
Morning until 4:30, and other than that,
the Metroplex.
Nothing else happening right no.
But we have one heck of a
thunderstorm in Tarrant County,
and then it extends anywhere from the
Parker Tarrant County line just to on
the north side of downtown Fort Worth.
Let's put a track on that,
and the track will show just
exactly where the core of this
storm is moving in the arrival .
So right now it's four O 2.
It'll be in North Richland Hills
any moment now,
right in downtown Fort Worth itf
here in the next few minutes.
Grapevine 413 DFW, the big airp,
4:15 we're looking at Irving at,
Six Flags 423, Arlington 427,
Grand Prairie 430, University Park at 4:35,
Dallas at 438, the Dallas Zoo 4.
Fruitdale 450 in Mesquite at 45.
I mentioned we did have a thunderstorm
that was severe up in Montague County.
We have a decent cap in place
right now across the area.
That's that warm layer of air a,
but with the dry line that's
back to the West.
Notice right now that
will provide enough lift.
The cold front will provide enoh
lift to overcome that cap and it
will slowly start to erode and
thunderstorms will continue to fire up.
That's the way the radar looks at 5:00
o'clock activity moving into Dallas County,
Collin County as well at 5:00
o'clock there we are at 6:00 o'clock.
See how the thunderstorm activiy
expands by 6 is that dry line cs
in a little bit closer into the heart
of the Metroplex and then at 7:0
o'clock the activity is east of Dallas.
At that point the cold.
And has passed by DFW at 7:00
o'clock and I've mentioned this
in these cuttings that we've doe
over the last couple of hours.
Once that cold front moves throh
your location wherever you are,
your severe weather threat
will abruptly come to an end.
There we are at 8:00 o'clock tonight by
8:00 o'clock the Metroplex is c,
but areas east of Dallas are no.
By 9:00 o'clock it's moving into
Southeast Texas and Far East Te.
And then certainly as we head
through the latter part of toni,
all the activity slowly comes to an end,
but all of North Texas.
Will be clear by 10:00 o'clock
tonight and then as we clear out
behind the cold front,
the winds pick up five o'clock
a wind advisory goes in effect.
Winds of 20 to 45, gusts close to 50.
That's why we have the tornado
watch in effect right now.
And behind that cold front,
strong winds and a freeze is
all a possibility.
I'll be back in a few minutes
with meteorologist Jesse Hawla.
Will walk you through more on the timing,
the severe weather threats and the cold
air and the freeze to follow all coming up.