Live from Dallas, Fort Worth.
This is WFA news 11:00 o'clock gonna dot.
Thanks for joining us this midday.
I'm tashar Parker.
We start today with severe storm
warnings in effect across
parts of North Texas.
The storms moved in early this
morning and they moved pretty
quickly over cities like Cedar Hill.
Boy, you could barely see what's
happening in that video again.
That cloud cover made it hard
to see out of our tower cams,
but just 20 minutes later.
Look at that.
The sun started to peak on through.
And some of you showed us,
you even got some hail this morning.
There's a picture there from
Ted Stripling out of Granbury
who documented quarter sized
hill in his area. Now as we
take a look outside, a live look that
is things are calm out there,
OK, but we're not completely
in the clear just yet.
Meteorologist Mario Ruiz is here now
with severe storm chances for tomorrow.
Mariella, you know,
anytime we start off with our.
Radar behind us, trying to give folks
an indication of what's going on.
What is the timeline of that,
whether that you're still tracking?
Well, we could see some
isolated storms this afternoon,
but tomorrow afternoon is really when it's
looking like it'll be more widespread,
it'll impact more of North Texas
and it's going to be more intense.
Now this morning was just a preview
of how unstable and how active
our atmosphere is at the moment.
Tomorrow we have an actual front
moving through, which is why.
We see these colors,
I'm going to break this down
for you across the Metroplex.
The orange that you see there
that's a Level 3 out of the five,
three is enhanced.
That means we could see numerous
severe thunderstorms.
The main concern quarter size to
golf ball sized hail winds with the
thunderstorms between 60 to 70 mph and
the potential for isolated tornadoes
just to the east of the Metroplex.
This red that you see that's a level
4 out of five, that's a moderate.
Risk that is a higher risk and
this is for more widespread
strong to severe thunderstorms.
So this is what we have to be paying
attention to tomorrow afternoon,
the slight that you see in the yellow,
that's a level 2 out of five for
our Western counties and this
means that we could see some
isolated strong to severe storms.
The threats also be hail as
well as the strong winds.
There is a minor flood threat because
we could see some heavy rain.
But overall,
the system moves through pretty quick.
Here's a rough estimate of the timeline.
This is Thursday, 1:00 in the afternoon.
We could see a few thunderstorms
develop ahead of the line.
This is what we'll be paying
close attention because these
could quickly turn severe.
This is 2 in the afternoon.
We see a line taking shape here.
That line then becomes better developed
around 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon.
Along the leading edge of that line is
where we could see the strong winds.
Within this line is where we
could see the hail.
The head of this line is where we
could see the tornadic activity.
With that being said,
we have to pay close attention.
This is now 4 in the afternoon
getting close to the I-35 Corridor,
5 in the afternoon,
a lot of us commuting around this time.
Then we see it line itself up along I-35,
including Sherman Denton to Fort Worth.
This is now 6.
We're still seeing that well developed line.
This is now 7 entering that moderate area,
the level 4 out of five area and
this is where we could see the most
widespread severe storms of the afternoon.
In the evening on Thursday.
This continues at 8:00 on Thursday,
now nine and then at 10,
the severe threat lowers for most
of North Texas,
with still some lingering rain
behind the main line.
We had some activity this morning
that has now dissipated.
We still see a few really light showers.
My hometown of Arlington,
they're seeing a little bit of
that rain as of now, but nothing severe.
And this is what it looks like
outside cloud cover, 67 degrees.
We still warm up today, tomorrow.
And that's enhancing the
energy of our atmosphere.
We'll show you again the
timeline of those storms.
We'll talk about where we're
expecting this afternoon as well.
And the cool off behind that front
all coming up in just a few moments.
Ashara,
OK, Marielle, appreciate that.
And of course, we've been keeping a
close eye on the roads all morning long.
The weather created a hectic
commute for drivers today.
Looking at the ponding on
highways 35I-20 here as well.
Cars basically splashed their
way on through it and it made for
quite the backup earlier today.
That what we're seeing now
though. So that is the good news.
WF's Kevin Reese is out in
the storm tracker right now.
Kevin, what are you seeing
out there on the roads?
We can go ahead
and come back in studio.
Looks like we're having some issues
issues perhaps with our audio there,
but they're driving.
Looks like they just made it
from 75 to 635 headed westbound
near the high five in Dallas.
Again, we did have that
ponding out there early on.
Not the case this morning.
Certainly appreciate Kevin and team
for giving us a live look at what
the roads are looking like right now.
Things actually looking decent for you.
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