Tarrant County under flash flood watch as storms expected to drop 1 to 3 inches of rain
Weather in North Texas is about to turn really serious.
Tarrant County is under a flash flood watch until 7 p.m. Wednesday as showers and thunderstorms will be headed across the area beginning Tuesday afternoon.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected to drop an additional one to three inches of rain.
“We are in a pattern of round after round of storms,” said meteorologist David Bonnette at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth on Tuesday. “We may not get a break until this weekend.”
Some of these storms will produce large hail and gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. There is a low threat of tornadoes with some of these storms.
Heavy rainfall also is expected in Tarrant County and the rest of North Texas.
The severe storms are expected to arrive late Tuesday afternoon and continue overnight.
Daytime temperatures should be in the mid-60s on Tuesday.
Forecasters say the main threat is hail from the Tuesday storms. Rain chances are 80 percent Tuesday night.
Tarrant County residents won’t get much of a break on Wednesday as forecasters say more storms will arrive Wednesday night.
Those storms also will have damaging winds and heavy rainfall.
Two to four inches of rain had already fallen in some areas of North Texas on Tuesday morning, which is why the NWS in Fort Worth has issued the flood watch for the next two days.
And rain chances are in the forecast for Tarrant County and North Texas for the next several days.
This story was originally published March 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM.
