Following cloudy skies during Monday's total solar eclipse, severe thunderstorms developed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area around 8 p.m.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth issued a severe thunderstorm warning for some areas. Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwall and Tarrant counties will remain in effect through Monday night. The alert was scheduled to expire between 9 and 10 p.m.
FlightAware, which tracks real-time and historical flight activity, showed departure delays of 46 minutes to an hour (and increasing) at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport due to thunderstorms just after 8 p.m.
Early Monday morning, Jason Dunn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said storms were being reported across central Texas and some counties were under tornado watches. Thunderstorms are expected to continue throughout the day Tuesday.
Dunn said the threat of large hail will increase Monday afternoon and may subside somewhat overnight. Tornado potential will continue overnight into Tuesday.
Dallas County is expected to receive 3 to 3.5 inches of rain as the storm moves through the area, according to a map on the National Weather Service's website. Rainfall is expected to increase across the region from west to east, with flood watches in place through Wednesday morning in Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro and other counties.
Mr Dunn suggested caution when traveling during the storm and told motorists not to drive through water when the road cannot be seen.
“We always advise people to have multiple ways to receive flood warnings,” he said.
