The National Weather Service in Fort Worth is predicting an increased likelihood of thunderstorms on Saturday. Some of these storms have the potential to be severe.
The NWS reported on Friday that storms would arrive across the region in two waves. One of these waves is predicted to arrive in the early morning on Saturday and the second in the late afternoon. The first wave is predicted to arrive after 7 a.m.
Monique Sellers with the NWS in Fort Worth told The Dallas Express that the morning wave of storms would determine what weather could occur during the storm in the afternoon.
“Now, whatever happens in the morning is actually going to dictate what happens in the afternoon,” Sellers explained. “What we’re expecting is that those storms diminish early in the mid to late morning. We’ll get a little bit of a break in thunderstorms, and then in the afternoon, we’re expecting additional development slightly further south.”
The storms are predicted to develop in the afternoon between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and persist into the evening hours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Hazards associated with these storms include hail, damaging winds, and flooding. The NWS has not yet ruled out the formation of a tornado.
“The threat is pretty low. We never say no, just because this is Texas and, you know, anything can happen, but that is not one of the primary threats tomorrow,” said Sellers.
Conditions are expected to dry out on Sunday, and temperatures are expected to rise. The NWS previously warned that increased moisture would create a heat index potentially in the triple digits for Sunday and continue into the following week, as reported by The Dallas Express.
The NWS expects that the heat index in many locations across the metroplex will rise upward of 100 degrees by the middle of next week.