the tornado up, that's it.
The tornado warning has now been
cancelled for Tarrant County.
That's how quickly meteorologist
Jesse Huela is here with me.
Jesse, that is how quickly
this thing ramped up.
And I got to tell you,
I I believe and I I thought of
this this morning as this and I
talked to our news director abot
this early this afternoon when e
had that line of storms roll in.
And Jesse, at least in my little brain,
this has verified it.
Go back to the let's go back
to the the DMA sat red.
If you could put that up for me.
We had that line of storms,
so that goes back six hours.
We had that line of storms roll
in this morning and as that
line of storms rolled in,
it then moved into East Texas.
Now none of those storms
this morning were severe,
but what those storms did this
morning is on the backside or
in the wake of that morning,
cluster of storms that morning
cluster created some sinking ai,
some subsidence air on the
backside of those storms.
So you know the,
the the atmosphere is like a river, right?
All things are just very fluid in motion.
So we had that sinking air on the backside
and that sinking air created some stability.
Where's the stability?
Well, it's on the backside of
that cluster of thunderstorms,
what's on the backside of the cluster
of thunderstorms, the Metroplex.
So when that super cell thunderm
developed out here, watch this.
Watch it pop up out here.
There it is.
There was some sunshine out thee
this morning, a lot of instabil.
It then ran into a bunch of stability,
if you will.
You can see the sun out there in those areas.
Look at that.
So it ran into a stable air
mass and then man, it just,
it just really shut down.
We see this happen all the
time in North Texas.
I hope that continues to happen
over the next couple of hours.
I don't know how long that stabe
air is going to stick around,
but right now I I do believe that just
just from watching these storms for years,
it ran into a stable air mass ad
meant Jesse, that's super cell,
you know, hop in here Jesse,
that's super cell really collap.
If you look, if we go back
to the evolution here,
walk over here, Jesse and and
walk people through this.
So I want to go, let's start he.
So you see right here for insta,
that's a classic supercell that
you can see the hook right there
on the east side of Parker Couny
moving in toward Tarrant County.
That's what it looked like at 3.
And then we saw as it started mg
farther to the east, it started
losing a little bit of that structure.
So here, here kind of going through here.
So there is there's a super cell going you
know 5 minutes at a time here each of these.
Hands, this is about when we
had that tornado warning.
And you see right here.
See that little hook here just
in downtown Fort Worth?
So there it is, right there.
And then as it started,
as we started progressing,
we got into closer to 4:30,
you see there's a very well defined hook
and that's maybe when that funnel was
being spotted on the north side of downtown.
And then as it crossed over I-3,
you start to see it losing that structure.
You see you don't have that.
You see it on the backside here.
You don't have that hook anymor.
So when you see that hook on the back side,
you've got what we call rear flk
downdraft winds pushing out of the storm.
You have other winds pulling into the storm
and that's when you start to get that.
Citation.
Now, as you might imagine,
you see this is more kind of
a straight line look to it.
Now what we have would be more a
straight line risk, 50 miles an hour.
It's not even severe thunderstorm ward.
I mean, look how fast.
You know,
Pete was saying we had a super cell with
a tornado warning just 15 minutes ago.
Now all of a sudden this is just
a thunderstorm with maybe some
gusty winds in it.
But of course on the backside h,
we're watching this cluster of
thunderstorms in Tarrant County.
So things change quickly and ths
why you don't take any warnings.
Slightly,
because it can go from nothing to a tornado.
Back to nothing. Again, Pete.
And
Jesse, I appreciate that explanation.
I also wanted to illustrate the
point to meteorologist Jesse Hu,
how well I knew how to use the graphic
system as he was here explaining that I know,
but I know what you were thinki.
And right now the severe threat
is over in downtown Fort Worth
as far as the tornado concern.
But right now we do have a sevee
thunderstorm warning that's in effect.
It's the West side,
it's downtown Fort Worth into the West.
And this is for quarter sized
hail and 60 mile per hour winds.
This is in Parker County.
This is in Tarrant County.
This is that second round.
It's not the supercell.
It's not the Super cell,
it's the one that fell apart.