just joining. we will give the idea of the scope of this. we have several areas under tornado warning. we will take the radar full and put the tornado warnings up, in red, and look at this folks. we have much of tarrant county, were of dallas county, all of denton county, all of collin county, rockwell county under tornado warnings. it is not one storm but several thunderstorms here that have strong rotation that are capable of rowing tornadoes. this is a very, very dangerous weather situation here folks that is going to be with you for the reminder of the afternoon. this is a high potential we see here of tornadoes, of hey, of baseball-sized hail, maybe larger and in some cases the tornadoes will be very difficult
circling it and the hail area is north of 635 the red road running west to east across your screen, interstate 635. so we talking about areas west of carrollton and farmers branch proper. those folks are getting hammered. we are more concerned about the potential for a tornado. there is no doubt this storm has very strong rowation associated with it and already has produced a tornado with a left of producing a tornado which have done damage and perhaps caused injuries and it continues to move through the northern portion of dallas county and it will be head up into far southeast denton county and southwestern collin county so you are under tornado warnings.
covered with warnings. shaded in red here, tornado warning in effect for denton county, the western half of denton county. put the warnings up again, evan and we will show the warnings. tornado warning in effect for much of the western half of denton county. tornado warring in effect for northeast tarrant county and folks in grapevine and perhaps south lake and the mid-cities area, tornado warning in northeast dallas county through colin county and a new warning here, as well, for southwestern colin county. and now i will zoom into each of the storms and show people where they are. in dallas county storm, we will zoom into this, the one that produced the tornado that did considerable damage around the flying j truck stop and it is now north of mesquite traveling in the direction of garland.
of ellis and colin county, and we are very, very concerned. and i m very grateful that many of us up to this point are in safe places. and my office is continuously open, and we are trying to be of service, but it s very little service that we can render right at this time because of the tornado and the rain and the hail continues. congresswoman, thank you for making the time to speak with us. we will take a momentary break here as we look at pictures of video shot over the past couple hours this afternoon as an incredibly intense set of tornado-generating thunderstorms continues to sweep north of dallas-ft. worth at this hour. again, substantial property damage. as yet, no confirmed fatalities. some reported injuries. we are back on msnbc with more
nonetheless, some of the bridges have been closed in parts of kauai because of the heavy rain falling through that area. all right. let s talk about the temperatures that are happening across the mainland as they like to say. 65 in new york. 72 degrees in d.c. but look at the difference back in chicago. it s 37 right now so about a 30-degree difference, or even more in some spots. from record-breaking high temperatures that are happening across parts of the eastern seaboard. these are numbers from yesterday. hartford, 93. manhattan, central park. 92 degrees. 91 degrees in dulles. and augusta, georgia, obviously, the masters happening there. steamy yesterday. chance of thunderstorms today. i don t think it s going to cancel play. it might delay it or suspend it ever so briefly. but it will knock down some of the pollen that s been building up and basically snowing green. colin county was up around 5,000. you get over 119, that s considered to be extremely high. you can imagine all the f