And good evening.
You are watching continuing severe
weather coverage in North Texas,
the entire area under a
tornado watch right now.
It's just been changing so quickly.
Pete, I think when we talked to
Rebecca she said you could feel the
temperature just dropping by the minute.
Yeah, you know when you have
a dynamic system like this.
And again this is the one that was
in California that produced all the
the crazy amounts of snow and the,
the, the flooding rains.
It was producing severe thunderstorm
warnings last night in Phoenix and
and very heavy snow in central AZ.
In northern, I know Flagstaff and
the Grand Canyon sees Snow a lot,
but the greater Phoenix area
doesn't see weather like that.
That's the same system that's
moved in here right now.
And I just wanna
clarify real quick,
just for my understanding,
when you say the storm is moving 50
miles an hour, that's
the, the mass of the storm is traveling
about 50 miles an hour across
North Texas. So when you take
that forward speed of 50 and
then you throw in winds of 30,
you add up to 80 and
so we're seeing. Right.
I mean so just the forward speed alone,
I mean it's causing problems.
Now you throw in 3040 mile an hour winds,
you've got some serious problems.
And I just got off the phone
with Weatherford police and the
Parker County Sheriff's Office.
They said that there are accidents
all over I-20 and that an 18 Wheeler
flipped over at the mile marker 401
during the 4:00 and 5:00 O'clock News.
That's why I was telling my kids
and everyone at home stay home.
Yeah, this is gonna blow through here
so quickly and create so many problems.
Stay in your safe room at home.
In Dallas County and Tarrant County.
I mean it's just literally minutes away
right now and it's in downtown Fort Worth,
Meacham Airport, just outside of downtown,
77 mile an hour, wind gusts, power outages,
roof damage all over the place.
So yeah, that's what's moving through.
Let me go to this, let me go back
to what we're seeing right now.
We have a couple of videos for you.
These are power flashes right now.
Tommy Braswell tweeted us this one.
So look at that.
I mean man,
we've got a strong thunderstorm there.
Jason, go to the next thing for you,
for me if you will.
There's our that's a live Denton tower Cam.
It wasn't raining 1520 minutes ago,
but now we have 69 mile per hour winds
right there at that location with a
temperature that's gone from the like say
I think it was 76 or 77 now down to 54.
So it's dropped very, very quickly.
The winds have really picked up.
That's our Denton County severe
thunderstorm warning that we have.
Here's our Tarrant County.
And again,
Dallas County will will be in
Dallas and Tarrant County.
We're gonna have thunderstorm warnings
issued here in just a couple of minutes.
I'm surprised that they haven't been issued
yet because now these storms have moved into,
I mean they're literally right on the
edge of of the center of downtown
Fort Worth and they are in downtown
Denton at this moment.
So I I want to put a track,
let me start in Tarrant County.
Oh,
Johnson County,
you're under a a warning too.
We'll have that in a moment.
Let's start in Tarrant,
then we'll do Johnson.
I want to put tracks and
then we'll go up to Denton.
County there is our Tarrant County storm.
Remember Tarrant County,
you're under a thunderstorm
warning in conjunction with a
tornado warning until 6:30 tonight.
Put my track on there for me,
Jason, if you would please.
And we will put that track.
The forward speeds about 5040.
It's been fluctuated between 45 and 50.
That puts it in,
I mean downtown Fort Worth at six O 2,
it's almost six O 3.
So downtown Fort Worth literally
just about a minute or two away.
North Richland Hills 610.
South Lake 614.
Kennedale 623, DFW 624,
Arlington 6:30 and we're looking at
Grand Prairie at 636 N Dallas 647.
The City of Dallas 651.
The Dallas Zoo 653. Garland 7:00.
O'clock Rowlett 706. Lancaster 711.
Heath 717.
Royse City 724.
Now let's go down to Johnson
County because I want you to know
what's happening in Johnson County,
because what's happening in Johnson,
that's what's going to be moving
into Ellis County,
and that's what's happening.
And also in the we have
Hood County and here's
Somerville County as well.
So let's talk about Johnson, Erath,
Hood and Somerville under severe
thunderstorm warnings until 6:45.
So the storm around Granbury right
now almost on top of the airport,
but that storm in Granbury will be moving
through Godly and Cleburne and these
locations and it will arrive at these times.
Pecan plantation that's in the
that's in the Hood County.
Glen Rose in Somerville County.
So pecan plantation six O 4.
Glen Rose 608 so it's in
pecan plantation now.
Glen Rose, just a couple of minutes.
Nemo 614 Burleson 628 Cleburne 6:30.
Happy Hill 637, Alvarado 642,
Mansfield 645, Venus at 6:50
Midlothian 658 Covington 602 ovilla,
ovilla, ovilla 707.
Glenn Heights 709.
Waxahatchee 715.
Now here's the story and we'll
go up to Denton.
We'll track that into a Collin County also.
But while while we're
shifting the radar around,
I I want you to know when this
storm arrives in your location.
70 to 80 plus mile per hour.
Winds are being reported.
The National Weather Service Office in Fort
Worth just had a 70 mile per hour wind there.
So that's in the north,
that's in North Fort Worth.
So very,
very strong winds with considerable damage.
We're having widespread straight line wind
damage right now across all of North Texas.
We'll put the track.
So, So what I wanna answer.
Is when when this storm.
And I'm gonna give you the time
when it moves into your location.
You need to be in your
safe room in the house.
OK and and you need to
stay away from windows.
This is the kind of stuff that blows
Windows out if if let's say part of
a tree blows down and blows around
and they could go through the window.
So I don't want you to take this too lightly.
Just be in the safe room in your house.
Certainly at a minimum the
interior of your house.
Just stay away from windows.
Whatever you do storm in
Denton County it's it's.
Right there in Trophy Club right now.
Double Oak a couple of minutes
Flower Mound 614, prosper 619,
Lewisville 622, Frisco 630 the Colony 630,
McKinney 636, Fairview 646,
Plano Six 48648 and Plano,
Princeton 653, Murphy 656,
Wylie 702 in Farmersville at Seven O 8.
That's the time.
I don't have a warning right now for Colin,
but I'm telling you it's going to be
issued in just a couple of minutes.
Let's shift to the South.
Look at Dallas County,
Dallas County,
you're not under a warning right now.
Any minute now,
I expect Dallas County to have a
severe thunderstorm warning issued in
conjunction with the tornado warning.
Our tornado watch,
there's a tornado watch in effect
for all of North Texas.
Let's show that Jason.
The tornado watch that's in effect
for all of North Texas that's in
effect until 10:00 o'clock tonight.
So when you have a tornado watch
that's in effect and you have
severe thunderstorm warnings that
are in effect municipalities all across.
North Texas Sound storm sirens
are not tornado sirens anymore.
They're storm sirens.
Those storm sirens are sounded because
you could have those 80 mile an hour
winds that we're seeing right now.
You could have golf ball up
to tennis ball size hail.
The atmosphere of the dynamics of
the atmosphere support all of this
and also the potential for tornadoes.
You, well people,
we're only seeing straight
line winds right now, right?
But remember, we're under a tornado watch.
I mean these things aren't
thrown around too lightly.
We're under that tornado watch.
Simply because the atmosphere
supports that type of rotation.