Tornado Warning issued for parts of North Texas Thursday
NORTH TEXAS — A Tornado Warning issued for Anna, Melissa, and Van Alstyne expired at 8:00 p.m.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for most of the metroplex through midnight. Included in the watch are Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Grayson, Hamilton, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Jack, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Mills, Montague, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rains, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Van Zandt and Wise counties.
The watch does not include Waco, Temple, or Killeen.
Any storms are capable of large hail, damaging winds and heavy rainfall. An isolated tornado is also possible where a level 3, enhanced risk has been extended south of the Red River. The slight risk has also been expanded further west of I-35.
Storms will continue to develop along the dryline into the early afternoon hours as storms begin to fire up east of I-35. A strong cap was in place Thursday morning, but will continue to erode during the afternoon hours. Any storms that break through the cap will tap into significant instability in the area and quickly become severe.
Coverage of storms will increase around 3:00-4:00 p.m. and remain scattered through the early evening hours, especially east of I-35.
Another round of potentially strong to severe storms will arrive after sunset as a cold front pushes through North Texas. Once the front passes, the severe threat will end, but more rain is on the way mid-morning Friday.
Please stay with CBS News Texas and the First Alert Weather team for updates.
