North Texans could face a range of severe weather over the next three days, including thunderstorms, hail, and tornados, and will need to stay alert to changing conditions.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth forecast that several rounds of strong to severe storms will sweep across the region from March 6 through March 8. The first of these storms is expected to arrive late Wednesday afternoon, moving east/northeast, with the greatest potential for severe weather remaining near and west of the I-35 corridor.
Hunter Reeves, a meteorologist with the NWS in Fort Worth, told The Dallas Express that the storms in this first round will not be widespread.
“It will be pretty isolated, but there is some low potential for those to move over the metroplex, mostly expecting hail and maybe some damaging ones with those,” said Reeves.
The second and third rounds of storms are expected to arrive Thursday morning through Friday morning, bringing much more coverage across the region. The main hazards on March 7 will be large hail and damaging winds. However, there is also a low risk of tornados.
“Out of all the hazards, that’s the one we’re least concerned about, but it’s not zero,” said Reeves.
Rain is anticipated to move out of the North Texas region by the weekend.
“Once this last round moves through on Friday, we’ll get a cold front to move through, and we’ll be seasonably cool, kind of in the 60s for highs and 30s and 40s overnight for lows into the weekend,” said Reeves.
There is a potential for morning frost on March 10, with temperatures warming into the 60s by the afternoon.
