Tarrant County will be 'right on the cusp' of winter weather Wednesday morning
Goodbye spring-like thunderstorms. Hello freezing rain.
A day after a small tornado injured two women and damaged 15 mobile homes in Johnson County, some parts of North Texas may see a dose of winter weather.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for areas west and northwest of Fort Worth, including Parker and Wise counties from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Up to a tenth of an inch of freezing rain could coat roadways Wednesday morning.
With temperatures dropping overnight, forecasters can't rule out the possibility that some freezing rain could creep into Tarrant County. For now, temperatures are expected to stay just above freezing but that could change.
"That's something we'll have to look at through the evening and overnight to see if we end up getting colder behind this front," said National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Dunn. "It looks like we're right on the cusp of it."
The cold front arrived in the Dallas-Fort Worth late Tuesday afternoon, dropping temperatures from the 70s to the 40s and lower. Some of the areas dealing with near-freezing temperatures were also facing flooding. A flood advisory was in effect for parts of Palo Pinto, Jack, Wise and Montague counties where rain gauges had already 2 inches of rainfall.
And a flash flood watch remains in effect for parts of North Texas through Wednesday night. Storms are expected to be steady in the DFW area, which could see another 1-2 inches with some areas seeing higher totals.
"We've still got flooding concerns this evening overnight tonight," Dunn said. "The heaviest rainfall will fall east of of the I-35 corridor from Hillsboro to Paris."
This round of wet weather started early Tuesday with Johnson County residents being awakened by strong thunderstorms about 3 a.m..
An hour later, two EF-0 tornadoes hit Johnson County, including one that pounded a rural mobile home neighborhood along Farm Road 917 between Godley and Joshua.
"It's just a very narrow strip," said Jamie Moore, head of Johnson County Emergency Management. "It's about 75 yards wide and about a quarter-mile long."
An EF-0 tornado, short for Enhanced Fujita Scale, can pack winds between 65 and 85 mph.
Moore said that two mobile homes sustained serious damage and that one of them was occupied by two women who were both injured. The one with more serious injuries was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
Another person was injured by a falling tree.
Homes in the DeSoto area were also damaged by what the weather service determined late Tuesday afternoon was also an EF-0 tornado.
Bill Hanna: 817-390-7698, @fwhanna
This story was originally published February 20, 2018 at 10:42 AM with the headline "Tarrant County will be 'right on the cusp' of winter weather Wednesday morning."