We have some new information abt
that destructive tornado in West, TX.
Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster
declaration for Matador, a small town
about 80 miles outside of Lubbo,
and we just learned the identity
of one of the four people kille.
Victor Valenzuela was 43 years old and was
working in Matador when the tornado hit.
We're told Valenzuela had thirteen children.
National Weather Service has been surveying
the damage to determine the Tornadoes rating.
We know it demolished at least 0
homes and businesses in the small town.
And in the small town,
crews are still working to reste
power to that area. And Mariel,
we talked about a little bit earlier.
It just seems like it's one thig
after another, whether it's the heat,
whether it's the severe weather.
We're hearing some rumbling aboe
us right now in our studio.
Yeah.
And unfortunately,
the area that we just talked ab,
they have the potential for
severe weather again today.
Break at all? No break.
We're kind of just stuck in a pattern,
and for us it just means scattered storms.
And that's going to change here
in the next couple of days.
But I want to show you what it s
like outside the W Phase Studio.
We are looking at that rain coming down,
but if you see in the distance e
the bottom left hand of the scr,
you can see some clearing.
So this rain, it's very spotty.
Not everyone is seeing it and
the rain actually looks like its
calmed down in the last 30 seco.
Again, that's what we're just going to
experience today is the scattered storms
that could lead to heavy rain at times.
These storms started building
well to the north and West,
so we'll be able to track them
coming into North Texas whenever
they do develop throughout the
day today and tonight as well.
But I want to show you here Dals
County at the top of the hour.
We showed you that these stormse
in southern Denton and Tarrant County.
Now in Dallas County,
downtown Dallas experiencing that heavy
rain with quite a bit of lightn,
loud Thunder as well we can
attest to that Duncanville,
Cedar Hill and Mansfield also
seeing that heavy rainfall at te
moment this moving to the south,
so Ellis County.
It's moving in your direction.
Within the next 30 to 45 minute,
you'll likely see this rain.
There's that area of severe weather that I
was mentioning where Matagorda was impacted.
We are going to see that threat again
there today and some of our North Texas
counties could also see some strong storms.
But the main concern here locally is going
to be the potential for the strong winds,
60 plus mile per hour, maybe soe
hail within the strongest of st,
but this is not going to be.
A widespread event for us,
marginal risk that does include Dallas,
Fort Worth.
So let's go ahead and talk timi.
So this is Friday at 8.
The storms that we're seeing rit
now have maybe an hour or two l.
We'll notice that a lot of our
activity starts to wind down.
Meanwhile,
storms are going to develop in the Panhandle.
These storms are going to
eventually move into North Texa.
This is around 8:00 in the
evening at around 10 midnight,
we'll notice these storms.
This actually model just updated to show
them moving in a little faster around 10.
We'll see that these storms know you make
it along the western edge of the Metroplex.
So our I-35 corridor counties seen that
potential for these storms movin
between 10:00 and about 1:00 in the morning.
These storms will continue to move and
look at how fast they kind of fizzle out.
This is now midnight.
These storms will weaken significantly the
more E they move into the area.
On top of that, we're also talkg
about the potential for dangerous heat.
Today we have the heat advisory
that's in place, Hood, Johnson,
Ellis County to the South.
Again under this advisory and ts
is for the heat index that can t
up to about 109 high temperature
near 94 degrees in Dallas,
95 degrees in Fort Worth for
the high 95 in Denton and in
McKinney as well as in Decatur.
So the rain that we have
coming through right now.
It's going to cool us off
for just a little while,
but once we see some clearing,
our temperatures are going to rise again.
SW counties into the upper 90s likely today.
So what we'll be watching again
are these storms kind of movingn
across the Panhandle into Oklah.
Notice how there's severe weathr
in Oklahoma right now?
We'll notice these storms moving
S It looks like a warning was jt
issued near Wichita Falls again.
Not going to see that same
threat here in North Texas.
It's going to be very limited.
But what's happening is that ths
Ridge of high pressure is helping steer
storms that start right here in a very
active area over the last several days,
and these storms will move into North Texas.
That's exactly what's going to happen today.
But that Ridge of high pressure
moves back over North Texas.
It's going to limit our
rain chances quite a bit.
For Sunday and into next week,
our humidity lowers a tad,
which will allow temperatures to reach the
triple digits about every day next week.
Chris.