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830AM: The Storm Prediction Center has placed Northeast Texas in an enhanced risk of severe weather this afternoon and early this evening. This enhanced risk is a category 3 on a 5 scale system. The standard category 2 risk runs along and east of a Gainesville-Arlington-Mexia-Huntsville-Jasper line. A category 1 marginal severe weather risk includes Central Texas, the Brazos Valley, and Southeast Texas for the late afternoon and early evening hours. Our primary focus will be on eastern sections of North Texas and Northeast Texas this afternoon and evening. Assuming we do see clouds clear out by lunchtime ahead of the dryline the atmosphere should be unstable enough to support organized thunderstorms by the late afternoon hours. Wind shear values will be on the increase this afternoon in both the lower levels and upper levels of the atmosphere. Conditions could become favorable for the development of severe weather – including the threat of very large hail, damaging wind gusts, and isolated tornadoes. Please check back after lunch for the latest forecast since we should have a better idea of how this afternoon/evening will evolve.
8:30AM Update on this afternoon’s severe weather potential • Texas Storm Chasers Shortly after 8 AM we were monitoring an area of showers and thunderstorms across northern sections of North Texas into Texoma. Isolated showers with a few lightning strikes are underway in Northeast Texas. Some of these storms were severe earlier this morning in the Big Country with hail up to the size of quarters. The …
