And most of you are going
to see a good soaking rain.
The problem is, is it could come
down rather heavily and cause
some flooding issues like we're
seeing in Tarrant County right now.
So we have a flash flood warning
in place for Tarrant County.
This thunderstorm that's been over
Tarrant County has just been sitting
there basically for the last hour or so.
So a flash flood warning in place
for almost all of Tarrant County.
This includes Fort Worth,
Bedford, Saginaw, Benbrook,
just almost down to Kennedale
because easily two to maybe 3
to 4 inches of rain has fallen,
especially kind of between
Haltom City and Watauga.
Kind of the bullseye there where I
wouldn't be surprised if there's
some three to maybe 4 inch totals
and all that's fallen within
the last one to two hours or so.
Some very heavy rainfall falling
over Tarrant County at the moment
and it will continue to do so,
at least for the next little bit.
That flash flood warning runs
until midnight by the way,
heavy rain also falling from
Garland to Heath to Forney,
but not heavy enough to warrant a flash
flood warning or anything like that.
But if you're out and about
this evening or tonight,
there could be a little ponding on the
roadways, things like that, things like that.
So please be careful.
Also some heavy rain falling in and
around Cleburne, but my main concern.
At the moment is for sure in
parts of Tarrant County.
So we expand the view.
We can really see the rain just
kind of falling in and around
the DFW Metroplex right now,
kind of outside of that,
not a whole lot going on,
but that will change as we
head into tomorrow morning.
By the way,
that flood watch in place for
all of North Texas rainfall
amounts of 1 to 4 inches,
probably most places in that
two to four inch range.
And isolated higher amounts,
higher amounts are certainly possible.
Let's talk what happens there's midnight,
some thunderstorms still
lingering over the DFW area,
maybe a kind of a brief lull in the activity.
But then by tomorrow morning,
we'll really start to see
an uptick in coverage,
especially for areas in kind of
northern North Texas and then all of
that will start to sink to the South
as we head through the morning tomorrow.
So here's 7:00 AM tomorrow morning.
As you head out the door,
maybe to the bus stop.
Rain falling from Decatur
to Denton to McKinney.
Could Dallas maybe not see
rain right at 7:00 o'clock,
or Cleburne at Waxahatchee
not see rain right?
At 7:00 AM.
I think that's possible,
but the rain will move in
through the morning hours.
So some thunderstorms are definitely
possible for the morning commute tomorrow,
and any thunderstorms that are
out there will bring heavy rain.
As we head through the morning,
look how this heavy rain just
drifts to the South.
That's where I'm concerned with
maybe some localized flooding
issues there was 10:00 o'clock.
There's noon the heavy rain still out there,
but it will start to shift to the
South as we head into the afternoon
and your mid to late afternoon
and evening hours should be pretty
dry during the day tomorrow. The
temperatures will stay on the cool
side though, so we'll talk about that
when I return and we'll have more on
the timing and the details for all this
rain coming up here in just a bit.
Alright, Kyle, we'll see you again
in just a few minutes to keep us
up to date on everything going
on out there anytime it rains.
Flooding is definitely a concern in our area,
but we've been in an extreme drought and
that means the ground is so compacted,
even a little bit of rain could
cause big trouble. WWF's
William Joy has been monitoring
things for us tonight in Dallas,
and he is live with us right now.
William, what are you seeing?
And Teresa, basically the way things
are right now in downtown Dallas
is Kyle was just talking about is
the way they've been most of today.
The slight drizzle, sprinkle,
maybe even cloudy for large
portions of this day outside of
that downpour we had around 2:00
and then we had about an hour ago,
but it's calm right now, at least
again in downtown Dallas.
Still, even though we needed this rain,
everybody probably wanted this rain.
That doesn't mean it hasn't
been causing issues as well.
Get this, I talked to DPD earlier.
They told me that from noon to five.
Today they had 50 crashes that they
had to respond to across the city,
and it wasn't just people driving,
but people flying as well. That also
dealt with some issues.
American Airlines had to
delay more than 800 flights,
canceled more than 300,
and Southwest Airlines
delayed around 1500 flights.
According to FlightAware,
DFW Airport had the most
cancellations and most delays of
any airport in the world today.
We spoke to one of Dallas's 2
swift water rescue teams today,
they said after going so long.
Without rain during this record drought,
people can just forget some of
the basics about driving in rain
can also flood much quicker,
as you were just talking about with
the dry ground with the clogged
drains and that we've become
kind of a broken record telling
people not to drive through water,
but it just keeps happening.
One of the officers I spoke with said
by the time you realize you're in trouble,
usually you're already past
the point of no return.
Take a listen.
Everybody thinks, Ohh,
it's not gonna happen to me.
They see it happen to everybody else,
but that will never happen to me.
And so you see water where
St might be flooded,
and you start driving through it,
not realizing truly how deep it is and
what's going on underneath the surface.
And then that's whenever people
really start to get into trouble.
As Kyle was just talking about this,
rain isn't going to stop anytime soon.
Which means as people wake up
tomorrow morning, they're going
to head out and likely be dealing
with possibly some flooding roads,
maybe even some flooding in the dark.
So if you're heading out in the morning,
driving to work, please be calm and careful.
Live in Dallas. I'm William joy.