Weather Dallas : Storms bring large hail to Dallas-Fort Worth

Storm moving through North Texas as a leader begins for many drivers.

Dallas and Tarrant County and in the context of a severe thunderstorm warning to 18:30 clock Collin County is under a severe thunderstorm warning to 6 hours

All of North Texas and is under a tornado Clock up to 10 hours

The National Weather Service said the storm cell, east through parts of Collin, Denton and Dallas counties was that a golf ball size hail.

WFAA-TV (Channel 8), reports of hail in Allen, Grapevine and Fort Worth.

The weather service estimated that by the storm winds could reach 60 miles per hour.

Dallas Tornado is today after several counties in Texas were grown in a News Alert lunch mentioned. A tornado Clock for Tuesday now covers Collins, Dallas and Denton. Submitted by the National Weather Service are also Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall and Tarrant.

In a statement on news in the afternoon, the National Weather Service Texas residents in these areas, while alarm clock for 10 local time tonight. But there is caution Tuesday - possibly large hail.

A tornado warning, as you can see a tornado as opposed to whether it has kept the National Weather Service Doppler radar or an independent witness a tornado. A tornado Clock, when the weather is to point potential of developing countries Tornado activity.

And while a tornado still in the area of ​​Texas this evening to advise local news from a different, more potential threat: Large Format hail. The whole day was the region to western Missouri hail larger than golf balls and subjected to almost as big as baseballs.

But while tweeted the Weather Channel for Dallas as a potential in diameter "very developed with a (storm) development of potential, large hail, 2-4 concerned."

Texas A wildfire burning about 70 miles west of Fort Worth has more than twice as large as previously expected growth, and hot, dry weather and strong winds hampered Tuesday continued efforts to fight the fire.

The fire in Possum Kingdom Lake has burned almost 150,000 acres, the Texas Forest Service said Tuesday, before an estimated increase of 63,000 a day.

Two camps visited by residents of Dallas € - the Boy Scouts' Camp Constantin and the YMCA's Camp Grady Spruce, which together a peninsula in Lake Possum Kingdom - were evacuated as a precaution, but were spared by the flames.

"We keep our fingers crossed," said Scott Ferguson, head of the sports camp for Constantin, run by the Scouts' Circle Ten Council. "We are on the peninsula, and we see the fire from us. ...

"We're like everybody else. It depends on what the weather. When the wind turns in 30 minutes, we have no guarantees."

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said the fire was forced to close the Possum Kingdom Fish, just below the dam. But a skeleton crew was allowed yesterday morning to return to the 103-acre facility, where waters are produced fingerlings for the stocking of Texas.

The Possum Kingdom Fire is the fifth of at least 100,000 acres in two weeks around Texas reported. Most of the state have burned in extreme drought and forest fires in the past week alone more than 1,000 square miles of parched ranch land - about the size of Rhode Iceland.

Weather expected to make things even more complicated when the temperatures in the mid 90s and gusts of up to 35 mph Tuesday in North Texas. There is a chance evening thunderstorms.

"Wind gusts, it is possible the fire fighting efforts is difficult," Forest Service spokesman Marq Webb said on Tuesday. "The public have to remember only that any use of outdoor fire shall be disregarded."

In Graham, a few miles north of Possum Kingdom Lake, sunrise glowed orange from the fire Tuesday.

A stream of firefighters and evacuees turned hotel lobbies. Rescuers stopped briefly and then returned to fires near the lake. Others just waited.

A hazy cloud of smoke hovered over Graham to see a city or evacuations. The unmistakable smell of scorched earth served as a constant reminder of the fire "nearby.

"They wait until the last minute because we are all here," Lindsey said Sears, who works the desk at the Best Western and has maintained to support workers in the stack area.

Burn never follow a path out, "said Paul Montoya, a Santa Fe National Forest ailing workers stopped in the city, take a shower.

"It's all bad," he said, with pictures of leaping flames and exploding houses on his cell phone. "We were able to hear in this way."

More than 30 buildings were confirmed destroyed in the Possum Kingdom area and the Forest Service says it will continue to grow.

Trooper Gary Rozzell the Texas Department of Public Safety ZEI heat of the fire near Possum Kingdom grew at a rate that on Monday ashes were sent into the atmosphere where it was freezing up, fell to the ground then in a process called "Ice cap. "

The fire drove residents from their homes along the shores of North Texas lake, burned at least 18 houses and two churches. The flames reached a storage building with fireworks on the western shore of the lake, the lights in the night, but caused no injuries, Palo Pinto County Judge David Nicklas said.

In West Texas, was rugged, hilly terrain north of San Angelo complicate efforts to Coke County Wildcat fire brought under control. But the fire department came in response Monday after the use of "burn-outs Sunday to evacuate fuel needed by the advancing flames, said Texas Forest Service spokesman Oscar Mestas. He has sparsely populated rural areas were evacuated as a precaution, but no houses were of the 104 000 acre fire reported destroyed.

Two men who apparently wanted to see the fire from heaven, died when their single-engine biplane crashed near San Angelo, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford Monday.

Witnesses told investigators that the two-seater took off from Mathis Field / San Angelo Municipal Airport on Sunday and that the two people on board, whose identity was not released, indicated that she wanted to go on a sightseeing tour of the wildfire. The wreck was Monday east of San Angelo.

In the southwest of Austin, some residents returned Monday after a fire a day earlier to find charred ruins of their houses. The fire destroyed at least 10 houses and 10 others damaged.

David and Kris Griffin found that almost all their belongings on fire, and George, her cat of 11 years, was missing. Making understand their loss even more difficult, the houses were on both sides of them relatively unharmed.

"Saved All the other houses, except those of us ... We just had such speechless right now," said Kris Griffin. She said that finding the cat was their priority, because their possessions have been replaced.

Authorities announced a 60-year-old charged with arson homeless Monday that it almost defied a national ban and burn had an unkempt campfire Saturday. Firefighters say the wind-blown embers of the fire to spread quickly ignites.