Showers linger Thursday morning after hail as big as tennis balls hit parts of DFW
Showers lingered through Thursday morning after storms moved overnight through the Dallas-Fort Worth region, bringing heavy rain and hitting some areas with hail as large as tennis balls.
A tornado also touched down on Wednesday night in Hamilton, about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. A tornado watch for areas including Tarrant, Dallas and Collin counties ended at 4 a.m.
Storms at first developed to the west of DFW on Wednesday and headed in a northeast direction, arriving in the metroplex after sunset, according to Juan Hernandez, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. As the storm moved through the region, Hernandez said, areas farther north such as Haslet, Saginaw and Keller saw small to fairly large hail. Social media on Wednesday night was filled with Texans holding up clumps of ice next to items like quarters and golf balls.
The largest reported hail was 2 and a half inches, or roughly tennis ball-size, in Haslet, Hernandez said over the phone on Thursday morning. Though he wasn’t aware of reported damage, he said that size of hail is large enough to impact property and vehicles.
Scattered thunderstorms are expected to return Saturday afternoon, according to the alert, with areas west of I-35 having the best chance of seeing the storms.
In Fort Worth, there’s a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 p.m. Saturday, the forecast shows.
The high temperature was expected to be around 78 on Friday, 80 on Saturday and 71.
This story was originally published March 25, 2021 at 8:11 AM.
