Storms not over yet — what to expect tonight and tomorrow in DFW weather
Tornado warnings for various DFW counties ended Tuesday evening, but more storms are predicted for Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
A small group of storms is making its way to Fort Worth from the southwest and may hit the area before 11 p.m., said Bianca Villanueva, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
Most of North Texas, including Tarrant County, is under a tornado watch until 11 p.m.
The watch also extends to the counties surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth including Parker, Wise, Denton, Johnson, Hood, Ellis, Dallas and Collin.
The primary threat for those possible storms is flooding, Villanueva said. DFW is under a flash flood watch until Thursday and the area is expected to see 2 to 4 inches of rain between now and then.
Tuesday’s second round of storms has the potential to bring damaging winds and a tornado threat, but that is only a slight possibility, Villanueva said.
On Wednesday morning, more storms are expected around mid-morning. Those storms could bring hail and damaging winds.
“Our severe weather potential will die down tonight, and we’re still uncertain on severe weather tomorrow,” Villanueva said.
On Tuesday evening, damage was reported at Eagle Mountain Lake near Harbor One Marina in Fort Worth. A structure on the lake had been blown over, according to photos provided by resident Doug Miller.
Miller said he saw what looked like a tornado pass over the lake and his house.
“You could see it coming across the lake. You couldn’t see the actual tornado, but what you could see was the rain was just really thick and white, and the wind started blowing really hard,” he said.
A tornado touched down in Denton at 6:56 p.m. just northeast of Texas Woman’s University campus, causing mostly tree damage, the National Weather Service said.
In the 18 months he’s lived at Eagle Mountain Lake, Miller said this was the worst rainfall he has seen there.
Storm spotters also reported large tree limbs down and roofing damage on Bonds Ranch Road between Highway 287 and Boat Club Road.
At 5:53 p.m., the National Weather Service tweeted reports of a rotating wall cloud just east of Eagle Mountain Lake. The storm moved into the Alliance corridor as sirens were sounding in Denton ahead of the storm.
The severe storm that produced the tornado warning also caused street flooding in Azle, according to the Azle News.
This story was originally published April 30, 2019 at 8:16 PM.