Storms dumps heavy rain across North Texas

A storm system packing heavy rain and powerful winds has brought flooding dangers and left several thousand homes without power on its push eastward through North Texas.

KXAS-TV (NBC5) weather anchor Keisha Burns said via Twitter just after 1 p.m. that with Dallas and southwest Collin counties under a flood advisory, area residents should be prepared for minor flooding. Up to 2 inches of rain had fallen as of that hour, she said.

Tornado risk is low, said Monique Sellers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Oncor’s power outage map showed just under 1,700 customers without power about 11 p.m., down from about 11,000 at 3:20 p.m. and 13,000 at 1:30 p.m. A large percentage of those are in Arlington, the Park Cities, Oak Lawn and Old East Dallas areas.

NBC5 chief meteorologist tweeted about 1 p.m. that most of the storms that had been predicted for this weekend will happen Saturday. Storms on Sunday should be isolated and few, he said.

Sellers said that rain chances will persist through next week, with showers cooling temperatures until at least mid-week.

“It’s not going to feel quite like that sweltering Texas summer that we’re used to, at least for a week,” Sellers said. “Now I can’t say the heat won’t come back after that, because it is.”