Posts Tagged ‘Texas’

Severe storms lit up the skies with lightning and caused tens of thousands of power outages Thursday night. Oncor Electric Delivery reported that outages in the Dallas and Fort Worth metro service areas were down to about 10,245 shortly before 5 a.m. By 9 a.m., that numbered had dropped to just over 5,000. Oncor had [...]

Per the Christian Science Monitor: With at least 300 lives lost from a massive tornado outbreak in the South, the Obama White House reacted quickly this week, declaring a federal disaster, promising federal help, and dispatching none other than the president himself to Alabama on Friday to survey the damage. A few states away, Texas [...]

The threat of severe thunderstorms continued Wednesday to hang over portions of the Deep South and into the Northeast, after another round of violent weather swept through the country the day before. Forecasters warned of severe weather conditions in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia, while threats of thunderstorms circulated in New Jersey and the New [...]

The stage is set for a major outbreak of potentially life-threatening and destructive thunderstorms over Texas and the southern Plains through Friday. This situation represents the greatest severe thunderstorm and tornado threat for 2010 thus far. Already, there have been over two dozen reports of tornadoes this afternoon and evening across eastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas [...]

One of the greatest threats for severe weather AccuWeather.com meteorologists have seen this season so far will take shape on the southern Plains over the next couple of days. Tornadoes and window-smashing hail will be among the threats with these thunderstorms. Biggest Threat for Severe Weather: Thursday through Saturday The thunderstorms will develop in response [...]

Locally heavy showers and thunderstorms will continue impacting parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Florida into tonight, causing flash flooding and disruptions to outdoor events in some areas. Fortunately for fans attending the NASCAR Nationwide race in Fort Worth, Texas this evening, the stormy weather will be moving off to the east. The race was supposed [...]

Locally heavy showers and thunderstorms will continue impacting parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Florida into tonight, causing flash flooding and disruptions to outdoor events in some areas. Fortunately for fans attending the NASCAR Nationwide race in Fort Worth, Texas this evening, the stormy weather will be moving off to the east. The race was supposed [...]

Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms through the weekend will plague portions of western Texas and eastern New Mexico. The weather pattern will elevate the risk of dangerous flash flooding. Cities at risk for urban and flash flooding during this pattern include Brownsville, Laredo, Abilene, Odessa, Lubbock, San Angelo, Amarillo, Roswell, Las Cruces, El Paso and Tuccumcari. [...]

Snow totals have exceeded a foot in northwestern Arkansas from the storm that brought a wintry mess to the southern Plains during this first weekend of spring. Snow from the storm almost made this winter the all-time snowiest in Dallas. Fayetteville, Ark., has topped the storm’s snowfall totals list across the southern Plains. A place [...]