All right, around this time yesterday,
we were tracking storms
in parts of North Texas.
Some of those dropped some serious hail, too.
This is video from Dublin, which is
southwest of Stephenville and Eraf County.
What's more Texas than a bull seeking
shelter during a springtime thunderstorm?
There it is in the background back there.
The viewer who sent this to us tells us
that Bull did eventually find a safe place.
To ride out the storm.
But those are some serious stones
coming down and he's smart to
be getting out of the way.
Jess, that
even little hail
stones, you know, relatively
small ones, they hurt.
They do hurt. I can't imagine
what baseballs feel like,
no, especially a lot of.
So here's the thing,
when you get baseball sized hail,
typically it's a couple of stones thrown
here or there that are very large.
But to get it raining down
baseballs like that?
That's a lot.
It's a serious storm.
Yeah. That animal was lucky there.
And anybody who thinks about running
out to save the car when it's
like that, just let the car get
it. It's too late. Yeah.
I mean, the moment you hear it,
it's it's it's already too late.
The bad news about tomorrow
is some of the hailstones may
be just as big. Okay. And we have
the enhanced risk here. Yeah,
it's in the Metroplex.
Now that doesn't mean,
and I want to show you this map,
it doesn't mean everybody in that orange
shaded area is seeing baseball sized hail.
Just means that's the particular area of
concern that if a storm intensifies enough,
it will have at least the potential
to tap in to the energy required
to produce baseball sized hail.
Just like yesterday. So.
That most of you will not
see baseball sized hail,
or severe hail for that matter.
But this is the risk area.
All of the Metroplex Level 3 main
concern will be that very large
hail damaging wind gust 60 plus mph.
Perhaps an isolated tornado as well.
That's tomorrow afternoon
and tomorrow evening.
Right now we've stayed pretty cloudy for
most of the day across the Metroplex 6066.
Right now DBU it's 65 out of
DFW with N winds at 14 mph.
Here's what's happening for
the end of the week.
So tomorrow we have that.
Pretty good shot for thunderstorms.
Late afternoon into the evening and then
some wraparound rain not severe as possible.
Saturday morning, highs tomorrow, upper 70s.
Saturday about 68.
Sunday, pretty sunny.
It's going to be a nice day.
Highs in the upper 70s.
So there's the the stubborn cloud deck
that has just been sticking right across
the Metroplex and kind of the heart here.
Of North Texas.
That will move out later tonight.
I want to jump into tomorrow.
So this is 5:00 o'clock
in the morning Friday.
Note that Friday morning
just has some clouds around.
Friday morning is fine.
I mean, even into the lunch hour,
we're very quiet.
But here's what happens.
This approaching system,
there's also a little upper,
a little disturbance right here.
And watch what happens as it starts
tapping into the heat of the day.
See that?
So right now that window of opportunity for
thunderstorms to erupt 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM.
Mainly West of the Metroplex,
that's where it starts.
But then watch what happens
as we approach 4:00 PM,
you see it becomes a little
bit more widespread.
So you'll have some thunderstorms.
Remember,
a model is not exactly
what's going to happen.
It's a guide and a lot of the high
resolution model data is in really good
agreement on the timeline of this.
So there you have some,
some scattered thunderstorms,
4:00 PM,
there's 5:00 PM,
Any one of these have that potential?
It has that potential to produce very
large hail up to the size of baseballs.
So that's 5:00 PM.
There's 6:00 PM you can see
thunderstorms still lingering.
So that window of opportunity for
severe weather for the Metroplex
about 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Then it shifts to the east of
the Dallas Fort Worth area,
bottom Canton, Terrell,
Kaufman County there Hunt County,
all the way down through Mejia and Corsicana.
Still at 7:00 to 8:00 PM.
The front will come through
sometime late evening about
9:00 o'clock for the Metroplex.
That will move to the east
and then anything behind.
This is just rain, maybe some Thunder,
but nothing severe.
Certainly 7:00 o'clock
in the morning Saturday.
See the wrap around moisture here.
So if you have Saturday morning plans,
the morning does look cloudy and it
will feature a little bit of rain That
should get out of here pretty quickly.
We expect it to be dry with some
sunshine by Saturday afternoon,
so we just have to get through tomorrow.
The weekend looks pretty good tonight
52 cool, dry, clear skies, light winds.
Tomorrow, some strong to severe
thunderstorms in the afternoon, 79.
The high with winds out of the southeast,
10 to 20. Next 10 days.
First day of May starts off warm and dry.
In fact we're going to be in the
80s most of the next 10 days.
If you look starting in May,
we have very may like temps low to mid 80s.
Another or next chance of storms I
should say will be that following
Thursday with a high of 84.
So let's get through tomorrow.
I know we can do it.
I know it's frustrating because hail,
we know hail here in North
Texas it's very destructive.
So hopefully you can avoid it
especially when we talk to start
talking about baseball size.
So hopefully it'll kind of go away tomorrow.
Yesterday it kind of fizzled
so maybe tomorrow we'll get
yeah Metroplex got really lucky different
I will say different setup tomorrow
in in a pretty big sense. So we'll see
we'll keep a close eye. Thanks Jess.