Dallas area in early severe weather threat warning for Monday's total solar eclipse
An untimely severe weather event may threaten the skies over North Texas just as millions hope to take in the spectacle of the last total solar eclipse in the U.S. for more than a decade. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued an early severe weather threat for North Texas, southern Oklahoma, and slivers of southwestern Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana for Monday's total solar eclipse. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and several towns in the heart of the eclipse's path of totality are at risk. Forecast models suggest that an upper-level low-pressure system will move into the Desert Southwest, interacting with a moist air mass across the southern Plains, creating potential thunderstorms. The SPC may delay the storm until after the eclipse passes, allowing for unwanted cloud cover. More detailed severe weather forecasts will be issued once the event is within three days.
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DALLAS – An untimely severe weather event may threaten the skies over North Texas just as millions hope to take in the spectacle of the last total solar eclipse in the U.S. for more than a decade.
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued an early severe weather risk Monday for North Texas, southern Oklahoma and slivers of southwestern Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana.
The risk zone encompasses the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and several other towns right in the heart of the eclipse's path of totality.
Forecast models give early indications that an upper-level low-pressure system will move into the Desert Southwest on Monday, interacting with a moist air mass in place across the southern Plains, the SPC noted.
That atmospheric setup would be conducive to developing scattered thunderstorms – some potentially severe – on Monday in parts of the Red River Valley.
"It's good that the Storm Prediction Center is watching this already and giving this heads up," said FOX Weather Meteorologist Stephen Morgan. "This is something that people from all over the world travel to see. And if you go based on climatological norms - 20-30 year averages, Texas is the hot spot to be because that is where normally cloud cover is the least."
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The saving grace is that the severe weather threat may hold off until the late afternoon and, thus, after the eclipse has passed through the region. The eclipse begins in Dallas at 12:23 p.m. CT with just under 4 minutes of totality occurring between 1:40 and 1:44 p.m. CT.
But the budding storm clouds could provide unwanted cloud cover.
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The SPC will issue more detailed severe weather threat forecasts once the event is within three days. Meanwhile, FOX Weather is keeping you updated on the forecast along the entire path of totality as Monday's big event approaches.