DALLAS – The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is in the bull’s-eye of a severe thunderstorm threat on Sunday that could bring very large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes to North Texas and other parts of the southern Plains.
As a warm front moves north and a dryline slides east across Texas, moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will overlap with these two features and trigger the development of severe storms, particularly from Sunday afternoon into the evening hours.
While the overall risk of severe weather stretches from Central and North Texas into southern Oklahoma, southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana and west-central Mississippi, the highest threat is focused across North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The greatest concern for North Texas is very large hail, potentially larger than 2 inches in diameter. Damaging wind gusts, hail and a few tornadoes are also possible across the southern Plains, with the threat extending into the Ark-La-Tex region and the lower Mississippi Valley by Sunday evening.
HOW LARGE IS ‘GOLF-BALL-SIZED’ HAIL AND OTHER HAIL MEASUREMENTS?
Thunderstorms will weaken and diminish in coverage later Sunday evening as they move eastward away from the areas of greatest instability.
On Monday afternoon and evening, areas of isolated to widely scattered strong thunderstorms posing some risk of severe weather are possible across parts of the southern Plains, mid-Mississippi Valley and central Gulf Coast states.
Large hail and damaging wind gusts are the main threats in those regions.