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Apr 9, 2008 5:23 pm US/Central
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More Hail Possible After Brief Reprieve
(CBS 11 News)
As the warm front lifts north, another round of storms may form again and some may be severe.
A period of dry weather will settle during the midday, but once the atmosphere heats back up, scattered supercell thunderstorms will develop.
These will be the storms with the high potential to produce tornadoes as we will be in the warm sector of this powerful storm. These storms also will likely be in the area through the evening hours.
A Squall Line of thunderstorms will roll into the area late tonight and early Thursday morning. This could be a very powerful line of storms with damaging wind and large hail the biggest threat, just like Tuesday's overnight damage.
Students at the University of Texas woke up to find hail had pummeled dozens of cars in uncovered lots. Roofs and trucks bared the scars of Tuesday night's storm.
"It was scary. I was just sleeping, nice and relaxed and then a bunch of rocks hit my window – it sounded like," said UTA student April Clougherty. "I could hear it hitting outside."
There wasn't much the students could do to prevent the damage. The storms popped up and moved through quickly, just before midnight.
They packed heavy rain, lightening and a brief burst of soft-ball size hail.
Some car windshields looked as if someone had shot the windows out of them.
"Big softball-size hail just pounded down," said student Kori Lowe. "We could see it in the street outside my window."
Oncor repots that at 4 a.m. there were 9,000 people in the DFW area without power. That number was cut to 1/3 by 7 a.m. The largest concentration of power outages that remain are in the Plano and McKinney area, company officials report.
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