All right, Our neighbors up in
Oklahoma once again experiencing
severe storms yesterday.
This chopper video from our
affiliate there shows the strong
storms moving over McLean County,
which is South of Oklahoma City.
Pretty nasty looking storm there, Jesse.
And then this is another angle of that
storm caught from someone on the ground,
local authorities reporting several homes
and businesses damaged by those storms.
You were just up there not
that long ago chasing storms.
We are where these tornadoes touched down.
Yeah. April 19th, we we.
Intercepted an EF3 tornado near the town
already actually hit the town of Coal.
I was 2/3 of a mile wide, very large wedge.
And so they did get some damage
from from that yesterday. You know,
we're still in sort of the height
of the season right now, aren't we?
We are even though it's been, you
know, knock on wood, relatively calm
around here. You know,
we've we've had some opportunities,
but they've. Overall,
it's been okay. It's been,
I would say a typical spring,
nothing out of the ordinary frost.
So that's good.
We just had tornado watches yesterday.
Now we have some different
watches this afternoon to
severe thunderstorm watch does
not include the Metroplex.
It's actually the same areas that were
under the tornado watch yesterday
now under severe thunderstorm watch.
The only exception,
Grayson County is not included today,
but Cook County is.
Montague, Young Jack and Wise
County also included it is.
Humid Metroplex is not included in this.
Could see some storms this evening,
but the severe threat mainly Northwest.
Wow, it's so humid.
It's 88 degrees but it feels like 95 so
there's a lot of moisture in the air.
I wanted to bring something up.
I I talked about this during the last
main forecast as saying the dew points.
How we should start focusing on dew
points rather than humidity because
it tells the story a lot better.
It's 87 but it feels like 95.
If I said the relative humidity was 65%,
what does that mean?
Not much dew point of 74.
We have a scale for this.
It really is the true measure
of moisture in the atmosphere.
When dew points,
I've got the scale right here.
When dew points are in below 55,
it's very dry air.
It's very pleasant, 56 to 60 comfortable.
When you start getting into
the low to mid 60s,
that's when it starts to get a
little bit on the sticky side.
After that it's humid, 66 to 70, very humid.
We're in the 71 to 75 range.
Label it gross and greasy.
That's the only way to explain it.
Then after that it's. Disrespectful.
And it can get that high.
It can get that suffocating to here in Texas,
we get a lot of humidity,
especially down toward the Gulf Coast.
Here, the Metroplex, we're dry.
We go out to the West.
We see some thunderstorms already.
Erupting out towards Seymour.
In fact,
a new severe thunderstorm
warning includes Seymour.
These thunderstorms stay mainly
W over the next couple of hours,
but we'll see some more start
to develop farther to the east.
And that's why that severe thunderstorm
watch is in effect until 11:00 PM for
our western and northwestern counties.
7:00 O'clock some thunderstorms
still out West.
Like I said,
some thunderstorms may drift into the
Dallas Fort Worth area through this evening,
but we're expecting the bulk of
the severe threat to stay West.
And then it will get to 11 some
showers and storms scattered
about the area overnight.
So it's not going to be a dry overnight.
We're going to have scattered rain,
some rumbles of Thunder.
We don't anticipate this to be severe.
This is 3:00 AM, just kind of
these waves of showers and storms.
Now we're in the weekend.
This is 7:00,
o'clock in the morning, Saturday.
Couple things to note here.
Number one is Dallas Fort Worth area,
low rain chance Saturday morning,
high rain chances West of the Metroplex in.
This is the area where the rain will be
the heaviest over the next couple of days.
A lot of waves of heavy rain
showers and storms
in our western viewing area.
We'll have several of those
throughout the day Saturday in the
Dallas Fort Worth area and east,
but the higher coverage of rain to the West
now in terms of severe weather tomorrow.
There's just enough in place to at least
talk about the chance that we'll see a
warning or two for maybe some quarter
sized hail or damaging wind gust,
but the overall threat is pretty low.
Now we get into Saturday night
into Sunday for Mother's Day.
Some good news.
I just said earlier I've lowered the
rain chance a little bit on Sunday.
That doesn't mean it's going to be dry,
it just means the rain coverage
might be just a little bit lower.
Still expect rain, still playing for it.
Still think about Plan B if
you have outdoor plans.
There's noon,
you see some scattered showers and storms.
You see how they are.
They're pretty widespread,
widely scattered, I should say.
There's 5:00 PM,
still the heaviest rain out to the West.
That's where it'll continue.
There's Sunday at 10:00 PM,
and then a little bit of rain still
possible through Monday morning,
even into Monday afternoon.
Now, as I've been saying,
heaviest rain W that's why there's a flood
watch in place for our western counties.
Areas shaded in green,
2 to 4 inches of rain with
isolated higher totals possible.
So that's where the heaviest rain is.
Dallas, Fort Worth.
Plan on one to maybe 2.
Isolated 3 inch amount if you get
caught under a good thunderstorm for
a little bit longer period of time and
then lower totals off to the east.
One to maybe 2 inches in eastern
portions in North Texas tonight.
Scattered showers and storms.
Warm, muggy, breezy, 70 degrees.
Tomorrow. 83 rain and thunderstorms.
Likely still another warm and muggy day.
There's the next 10. It's nonstop.
It just seems like these this
unsettled pattern will continue
of scattered showers and storms.
Not all day washouts, in fact.
Really,
the next two days into Monday look
to be our best chances for rain.
But it stays pretty humid.
Stays pretty warm too, over the next 10.
What's the category after gross
and greasy? Disrespectful. Let's
stay away from those disrespectful days.
Thanks, Jess.
As we've been telling you all week,
this weekend is going to be a rainy one,
so you want to make sure you have
that WFAA app already downloaded.
That way you can track storms
right there in the palm of your
hand and you can get things right.
When it comes to your Mother's Day plans.
Again, it is free in your App Store.