It’s been a stormy and treacherous week for Texas as statewide weather systems doused the state in rain and brought severe weather threats to nearly every major metro at one time or another. But the doom and gloom is not over in North Texas, where forecasters warn of large hail and possibly damaging winds all weekend long.
Severe storm risks first rose in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metro area Friday, April 24. But they’ll linger over suburbs northeast of Dallas throughout the weekend. The National Weather Service says isolated pockets of large hail are the biggest threat, which the agency defines as having a diameter of 1 inch or more.
“Isolated severe storms will be possible each afternoon and evening through this weekend, primarily along/north of I-20 and along/east of I-35,” the NWS Dallas-Fort Worth office warns. “Many locations will remain dry! The primary hazards will be isolated large hail and damaging wind gusts.”
Dallas itself has fairly low-level thunderstorm odds, hovering around 10%. But the national agency says that storms moving across Oklahoma toward Arkansas may cross over the Texas border and hit towns northeast of the DFW metro near the Oklahoma-Arkansas-Texas border…