Thunderstorms, including some severe, caused a variety of problems across the Plains on March 7.
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00:00 Our top story tonight takes us to the Southern Plains where we are tracking
00:04 thunderstorms, some of them severe. The main threat is wind and hail, but
00:09 isolated tornadoes cannot be ruled out. Of course, lightning is always embedded
00:14 in a lot of thunderstorms and it lit up the sky in Tulsa, Oklahoma this morning.
00:18 Let's check out the view from Oklahoma City where they are under a severe
00:22 thunderstorm watch at this point in time as lines of thunderstorms work their
00:26 way closer to it. Oklahoma City in the upper sixties, that view courtesy of
00:30 Earth cam and again, not too far away. We are talking about the active weather
00:35 here it is and you can see where we do have Oklahoma City right in the middle
00:38 there and there are thunderstorms approaching. This is part of a bigger
00:42 trend as I back out a little bit and show you some of the thunderstorms that
00:46 are developing. It's hard to mark out, but you can see where those white
00:50 flashes of lightning are and it's anywhere from southeastern Kansas right
00:53 into central Texas that we're finding a lot of this thunderstorm activity
00:57 initiating and some of these thunderstorms have been severe. Most of
01:01 the threat to this point has been for damaging wind and hail, but we do have
01:07 at least some reports of funnel clouds and different activity. So we'll start
01:10 on the southern end of this line where we do have a couple of thunderstorms
01:13 that are of concern, most of them producing that damaging wind threat or
01:17 hail. Hail has been one of the bigger stories as it's worked its way through
01:21 Texas and there are still some thunderstorms there southeast of
01:24 Abilene. As we go into Dallas, Texas, our actual concern has been flooding.
01:28 Look at how the thunderstorms just kind of train their way right over Dallas
01:32 itself. So the Dallas Fort Worth Metro, you're under that flash flood warning.
01:36 This is going to last until eight o'clock central time. So we still have
01:39 another hour issued with this storm as we continue to monitor with this
01:43 warning rather. And we might need another one, unfortunately, because
01:47 we're gonna be talking about the chance for rain not just right now through
01:50 tonight, but also into tomorrow morning. So the morning commute might not be
01:54 much better as far as rainfalls concerned Oklahoma City, not quite in
01:57 that threat for thunderstorms just yet, but they are coming in from the
02:01 northwestern side of town. So be ready, be alert for some of the stormy
02:05 weather. And we've had again a history of some of these thunderstorms
02:08 producing tornado warnings. I'm going to put on the icons here that show you
02:13 where we've had at least a few reports of severe weather. And you can see
02:17 we've had some of those reports of at least a funnel cloud there near the
02:22 Kansas Oklahoma border for the next few hours. Our concern is this threat for
02:27 severe weather, which initiates here where we've seen those thunderstorms
02:31 occurring. And this lasts until nine o'clock central time to the north, 10
02:35 o'clock central time as you work your way farther south. So we'll be keeping
02:38 an eye on that stormy weather. But the threat moves east through the night. So
02:43 places like Shreveport, you could actually see these thunderstorms by
02:46 daybreak just before that, actually, with damaging winds and large hail
02:51 isolated tornadoes still a possibility, though the greatest threat would be
02:54 probably in the next two or three hours here with that threat. Notice what
02:58 we're following as these storms work their way east, they continue so they
03:02 don't stop overnight tonight. They continue through Louisiana, Mississippi,
03:06 even portions of lower Alabama could have severe weather, which does include
03:10 isolated tornadoes, though the greater threat will be the wind, the hail. Don't
03:15 underestimate the flooding potential heavy rain. We know it in the south.
03:18 We're used to it. But when it comes down this quickly after what we've already
03:22 had so far this week, there is that added threat for flooding. Saturday,
03:27 you can see these thunderstorms still working their way off towards the east,
03:29 and there's another threat for severe weather here, this time focused on
03:33 southern Georgia parts of the florida panhandle near I 10 corridor. So let's
03:38 start these thunderstorms tomorrow morning. Like I said, Dallas, we're not
03:41 out of the woods for the morning because there's still a lot of rain moving
03:43 east here. We go into friday afternoon and you can see some of these
03:47 thunderstorms picking up off towards the south. That's our severe weather
03:51 concerns. So heavy rain to the north, still some spotty intense
03:54 thunderstorms. The south, lots of severe weather potential as we go through
03:57 tomorrow. It looks like saturday morning it dies down, but there's still
04:02 moisture from the gulf of Mexico and that's where we find some of those
04:05 thunderstorms reigniting before they move offshore into the Atlantic
04:09 saturday evening.