Wet weather is on the way to Texas in the last days of March, hopefully providing some drought relief but potentially causing flooding as well.
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00:00We are watching out for some of those thunderstorms popping up for the Dallas Metro, so
00:04here's the broad view. As we take a closer view, we have now two severe thunderstorm warnings in
00:10effect for the Dallas Metro. The first one's going to be pretty much right over downtown Dallas,
00:15just to the east here along I-45 and the I-20 corridor right there, right where I-30, I-20,
00:23and I-45 meet there, just to the east of downtown Dallas. That's where this one severe thunderstorm
00:29warning is. This one producing a lot of lightning. I have lightning icons on there because this
00:33normally shows the intensification and the maturity of a severe thunderstorm, and you can see this
00:38storm right there definitely maintaining its lightning count, so that means that this storm is
00:43maintaining its intensity, so this one's going to be lasting here for a while. Now off to the
00:47southwest, this is a storm that was showing in that Dallas camera that we were watching out,
00:52so that's the cleave, that's going to be just to the west there of I-35 west there, southwest of
00:57downtown Dallas. So this storm is moving off to the east relatively slow, so these slow movers
01:02could produce some heavy rainfall, so there could be some very localized flooding here with some of
01:07these areas, but this storm is also producing a lot of lightning. It popped up very fast,
01:11so there could even be some small hails associated with not only this storm, but that storm there to
01:16the east of Dallas as well. So this is going to be a pretty impactful afternoon drive home there
01:20for folks living in the Dallas Metro, especially along I-35 west there, off to the southwest of
01:25the Dallas Metro. That's what we're tracking right now, but as we look at the overall broad view
01:30of what we're watching out for this evening, here's an update look at your storm zone. So yes,
01:34the Dallas Metro is seeing the storms right now, but as we head into this evening, this storm zone
01:38will expand to include southern Oklahoma, to include portions of Arkansas, and portions there
01:43of Louisiana here as we head throughout the next 6 to 12 hours. But after that, as we head into
01:48late Wednesday and throughout the day on Thursday, the main focus will then shift to the Texas
01:53Gulf Coast. We'll see heavy rainfall for Houston, Austin, San Antonio, even down south towards
01:58Brownsville and Progreso in far southern parts of Texas. As far as how much rainfall we're expected
02:03to see, we'll have that band of rainfall here for tonight and this evening, but overall look at that
02:08giant blob of rainfall there across the Texas Gulf Coast. That's where we're going to see the
02:12heaviest rainfall with our Accu-Ed local storm max over a foot of rainfall possible, but that darkest
02:18shade of green is where it looks like we'll see 4 to 8 inches possible here as we head throughout
02:22this evening and as we head throughout the next couple of days. So Jeff, good news is this is
02:27definitely going to help put a dent in the drought, but the bad news is most droughts normally end in
02:31floods. That's true and you know it'd be nice if we could get maybe three events like this over the
02:36course of a couple of months spread out instead of a big huge hurricane or tropical system to dump
02:42twice these amounts at once. But again, that area of 4 to 8 inches is concerning for flooding.