Overnight Severe Storms Hit Red River and Ark–La–Tex With Tornadoes, Giant Hail, and Flooding

Overview

• SPC issued Tornado Watch 148 for North Texas late Saturday night through 5 a.m. CDT, highlighting a risk for a few tornadoes, 3‑inch hail, and 70 mph gusts.
• Severe Thunderstorm Watch 147 covered southeast Oklahoma, northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas, and northwest Louisiana through 6 a.m., focusing on large hail and damaging wind with a brief tornado possible.
• A long‑lived supercell that moved near the Fort Worth area produced multiple tornadoes and hail up to baseball size before weakening toward 07–08z as the cap strengthened.
• WPC said flash flooding was likely overnight from northern Texas into south‑central and southeast Oklahoma, with 2+ inch per hour rain rates and 2–4+ inch totals that included parts of the Dallas–Fort Worth metro.
• By early Sunday, storms over southern Arkansas into northern Louisiana organized into a bowing line, shifting the main threat to damaging winds as isolated large hail continued.