Two rounds of strong to severe storms to hit North Texas, with threat of large hail and damaging winds
The First Alert Weather team continues to cover severe weather through the night into the early morning.
As the cold front catches up to the storms southwest of the metroplex, it will push them more to the south, driving them away from the metroplex.
In the late-night hours, damaging winds and flash flooding are the highest risks.
A flash flood warning is in effect for Collin, Dallas and Denton counties until 3 a.m. Impressive rainfall rates of as much as 2.5" per hour have been observed in portions of Denton, Collin, and Dallas counties.
Flood warnings have been issued through at least Wednesday afternoon for the Elm Fork Trinity River near Carrollton, the Trinity River in Dallas and White Rock Creek at Greenville Avenue in Dallas. Do not drive through flooded areas.
A severe thunderstorm watch is issued until 2 a.m. for Delta, Ellis, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Navarro, Rains, Rockwall and Van Zandt counties.
We'll wake Wednesday with some clouds and some rain in our eastern counties. We are expecting this front to stall out and help trigger afternoon storms.
We'll watch these storms for local heavy rain, but expect severe weather. The weather pattern is expected to get stormy again by this weekend. Most of the activity will be along the Red River, but chances spread south as the days go on. Northwest flow aloft could bring daytime storms up to our north into North Texas by night, we'll keep an eye on that risk. The chances of storms and rain pick up on Sunday and Monday.
Our spring storm season is going to stretch into mid-June. We'll continue with storm chances almost every day next week. This will help keep the summer heat at bay for a little bit longer, as well as keeping your yard and plants well-watered.
Stay with the First Alert Weather Team on-air and on stream for the latest updates.
