A tornado watch in effect.
Now, this does not include the Metroplex
or a vast majority of North Texas.
It only includes the three counties along
the Red River highlighted in yellow,
Cook, Montague and Grayson County.
That's until 11:00 PM.
So we're going to keep an eye on that.
Nothing is happening right now.
We are very quiet across North Texas.
Mine is a little bit of rain here or there.
88 degrees was the high today,
the normal, 82, the low this morning, 65.
It is so humid outside dew points in the low
70s that just means the air is very sticky.
If you get air,
if you had dew point numbers above 70,
that's very humid 87, but it feels like 93.
And it's breezy too,
with winds out of the South at 21.
So here's what we have.
See Weatherford's going to
get a nice little downpour,
very brief downpour of rain.
This is not what we're expecting
to become severe.
There's not enough in place for that to
strengthen much more than what it is.
It'll just kind of pulse up and down here.
Pea sized hail potential.
It's May.
Some gusty winds, some very heavy rain,
but see how small that thunderstorm is.
The area that we're more concerned
about will be back here.
See these clouds starting to pop up here?
This is where we're going to watch for
the development of thunderstorms a little
bit later this evening, So take a look.
There's six.
Watch carefully here, there's seven.
So there's more forcing available for
thunderstorms to develop out here from Buoy.
Down to Decatur and those
will slowly drift E at 9:00.
O'clock through 10.
Remember, the tornado watches until 11
for these three counties of North Texas.
So again, large hail,
certainly a big concern.
Damaging wind gust can't rule
out a tornado as well.
That's something we're going
to monitor all night.
Those thunderstorms likely
to stay north of Hwy.
380, which runs between Denton and McKinney?
Those are likely to stay N tonight,
by tomorrow morning.
Sprinkle or two.
That's it.
However,
by the afternoon and evening tomorrow,
another round of strong
to severe thunderstorms,
this time for a larger area of
North Texas expected to develop
and that'll continue into Central
Texas and down by Big Bend.
So it's going to be a very wet day tomorrow.
As we get into the afternoon, take a look.
This is.
The 7:00 o'clock hour Friday see
thunderstorms starting to develop.
Now the bulk of the activity
is expected to stay West,
and by that I mean watch how
widespread and look at that this is.
So this is such great news.
Yes, there is a risk of severe weather,
but the drought conditions out in this area,
in particular of Texas, are very bad.
So to see this heavy rain and
this widespread rain moving to
those areas is excellent news.
In North Texas tomorrow, 4050% coverage.
Scattered showers and storms.
The severe risk again higher to the West,
and certainly the coverage too.
Then by Saturday.
It's a very widespread rain in North Texas.
It doesn't mean it's raining
every hour of the day.
There will be plenty of dry hours in the
morning and even in the early afternoon,
but watch as we get into the late afternoon.
This is 4:00 PM, pretty widespread rain,
some thunderstorms.
Severe risk. Really low.
It's not 0, but we're going to watch it.
There's Saturday evening.
It kind of dries out briefly before another
good chance of rain on Mother's Day.
70% coverage. There's 12:00 PM,
so if you have morning plans,
you'll dodge just a few raindrops.
If you have afternoon plans with Mom,
it's a little bit more widespread.
There's 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon,
especially our western counties
from Graham to Breckenridge,
Mineral Wells, Stephenville, Granberry.
Tarrant County, Denton County.
These areas pretty widespread rain
and then certainly by the evening,
most of us are at least getting some rain
on Mother's Day and it's something we need.
I know the timing is not great,
but one to three inches of rain
expected for most of North Texas.
Higher amounts to the West,
lower amounts to the east,
where they're going to be.
Maybe one to two in far
eastern portions of our area.
Tonight though, just 72 degrees.
Warm,
buggy and breezy scattered thunderstorms.
Tomorrow,
86 more scattered showers and storms.
Some of those could be severe.
Pale and wind potential,
that's your number one concern.
There's the next 10 days.
You'll see the pattern stays
pretty unsettled the weekend.
It's not a washout every hour.
I know a lot of people focusing
on the high rain chances.
We are expecting a good chance of rain,
but at least there will be some
breaks here or there and more
rain chances early next week
with highs in the low 80s.