Flooding Threat Arrives

It does NOT appear that today is a wash-out in regards to your weekend forecast. It's windy, humid and cloudy but rain chances hover around 20% for the afternoon, slightly higher for our western counties:

After a perfect weather day on Friday the crowds at the Main Street Arts Festival might have to dodge a passing shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. Chances pick-up for the evening music:

A major storm system that brought snow to Colorado and severe weather to Oklahoma and Kansas is headed this way. It looks like we bear the brunt of it by late Sunday:

The biggest threat from this event will be flash flooding. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH is already in effect for our western counties as of this morning. It will likely be extended to the rest of north Texas later:

SIGNIFICANT rain amounts are forecast. While the flood threat is high the risk of severe weather includes damaging winds and even isolated tornadoes. It appears this threat will span the afternoon on Sunday into Sunday. The flood threat will continue all the way to Tuesday:

This is how one of our forecast models paints Sunday afternoon. A large and potent band of heavy rain, lighting and possible severe weather moving in from the west and into the metro area as we get into late afternoon on Sunday:

The rain chances pick up from west to east over the next 36 hours:

The heavy rain continues all the way into Tuesday morning. We'll continue to see rain and storm chances across north Texas for the balance of the work week as unsettled weather settles in over us this coming week. The spring rains have arrived in force: