Severe Weather Possible Again Tomorrow

From Meteorologist Brandon Rector...

Sorry for the late update today. It has been a very busy afternoon and evening here in the weather center. We saw quite a bit of severe weather roll through the Big Country tonight. Thunderstorms dropped hail the size of nickels and quaters. They also brought wind gusts in excess of 60 mph. The entire area with the exception of Stonewall and Knox counties are under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 3:00 a.m. tonight. There is a Flash Flood Watch in effect for Eastland and Stephens counties until 6:00 a.m.

The cold front that passed us by last night will continue to remain stalled to our south through tonight. Beginning tomorrow, it will slowly move northward back into the area as a warm front. With moisture in place now, this boundary will combine with a developing dryline in the western portions of the state tomorrow to act as a lifting mechinism to bring us more showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms could once again be severe with large hail and damaging winds as the main threats. An isolated tornado can't be ruled out. The main question for the severe weather tomorrow is whether or not enough instability will build back into the area. It looks like we will have enough, but we may not. Our chance for rain tomorrow stands at 60% right now.

This shot of rain comes to an end early Friday. Another shot of showers and thunderstorms comes late Saturday into Sunday as an upper level disturbance may move through. Our chance for rain right now is slight to 20%. The dryline looks to be active Monday and Tuesday, so we once again run a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms.

As far as high temperatures go, they will range from the mid 70s tomorrow to mid 80s this weekend and Wednesday.

Have a terrific Thursday!