Tornado watch issued for parts of North Texas as rain moves into Tarrant County
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 15 mins ago Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Apr. 28 FORT WORTH A tornado watch was in effect Wednesday for several North Texas counties, but it does not include Tarrant County yet, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
The watch is in effect until 10 a.m. Wednesday for Texas counties including Parker, Archer, Clay, Haskell, Montague, Shackelford, Throckmorton, Young, Baylor, Cooke, Jack, Nolan, Stephens, Wichita, Callahan, Eastland, Jones, Palo Pinto, Taylor and Wise.
Showers and thunderstorms are still in the forecast for Tarrant County residents on Wednesday through Friday, with isolated to scattered storms expected through early Wednesday afternoon and another round of storms expected to develop later in the afternoon through Wednesday night. Some storms may become severe with large hail and damaging downburst winds.
Apr 28, 2021
A Flash Flood Watch has been issued by the National Weather Service for Hunt County and the surrounding area of North Texas:
FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a Flash Flood Watch for portions of north central Texas and northeast Texas, including the following areas, in north central Texas, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Stephens, Tarrant, Wise and Young. In northeast Texas, Delta, Hopkins and Lamar. From 7 PM CDT this evening through Thursday morning Widespread rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches, with isolated higher amounts up to 6 inches will be possible. The heaviest rain will
Severe storms with hail the size of ping pong balls in North Texas weather forecast
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Apr. 22 FORT WORTH North Texans should have a quiet Thursday on the weather front with cloudy skies and spring temperatures, but it s going to be active on Friday.
There is a slight chance of isolated showers on Thursday and early Friday. The daytime high on Thursday should be in the upper 60s.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth say North Texans could wake up Friday morning to scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Killeen-area residents may wake up to record-breaking cold temperatures Wednesday morning.
The current forecast from the National Weather Service in Fort Worth calls for a temperature of around 41 degrees.
Based on data available since 1950, the lowest recorded temperature for the Killeen-Fort Hood area on April 21 was 47 degrees, which has been recorded multiple times but was last recorded in 2013.
High temperatures should climb back into the mid-60s by the afternoon Wednesday, but high temperatures are forecast to be about 10 degrees cooler than they are today.
Winds could gust up to 25 mph today and around 30 mph this evening.
As the week progresses, temperatures could warm up to the low to mid-70s.
DALLAS
The electric grid manager for most of Texas issued an electricity conservation watch Tuesday, appealing to customers to conserve electricity despite weather conditions typical for spring.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which previously came under fire after it was accused of mismanaging its resources in preparing for the historic freeze in February that killed more than 100 people, issued the watch Tuesday, one step below emergency action. It blames “a combination of high generation outages typical in April and higher-than-forecasted demand from a stalled cold front over Texas,” in a statement Tuesday by Woody Rickerson, vice president of grid planning and operations.