Dallas weather: November 2 overnight forecast

Well, here's a look at the tornado watch in effect still for our western counties until 11 o'clock tonight. That said, we've really not witnessed any storms this evening displaying any significant rotation. And I think one of the big factors at play right now is there's some capping up around seven, 8000 feet in the atmosphere, and that is causing these storms. Thankfully to underachieve so far this evening. Here is a look at the most active period of weather. Areas west of I-35 now through 1130 this evening. Here in the Metroplex, the I-35 corridor, it's going to be a little bit after 10 o'clock until about 2 o'clock in the morning. And then 1 to 5 a.m. for our eastern and southeastern counties. Some of the strongest storms still capable, producing wind gusts maybe as high as 50 to 60 miles an hour. And gusts up to quarter-sized hail, still can't rule out a brief spin-up tornado or two with some of these storms, and localized flooding is a possibility. But once again, I think that tornado threat at this point in time is pretty low. No rain today, none, of course, for November so far. And we've got a deficit that we need to work on here. For 2026, that deficit now has climbed. Over five inches. Current temperatures between 77 and 78. DFW 78, 77 at Alliance with a strong, gusty south wind blowing right now. We're in the 70s across the board. We've got 76 in Canton. It's 76 at Meridian, 75 Granbury, and mid-70s in Gainesville. So what's at play here? Well, we've got this big, strong upper-level low. It's up here in southwestern Kansas, though. If it were a little bit farther south, we would more than likely We have even more impressive wind fields, but at this point in time, it looks like it's just far enough to our north and west that we're not quite getting enough lift in the upper atmosphere to bust through that cap. Storms have been developing, though, along the leading edge of that cold front. Let's take a closer look at those right now. We did have a severe thunderstorm warning earlier. Between 9 and 9.30 for Montague County, that has now expired. We'll go in for a closer look, and it's northeastern Montague County where we've got some of the heftier activity. This is torrential rain falling, frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. There may be some very small hail embedded here, a lot of cloud-to-ground lightning activity. This is zipping eastward at about a 40-mile-an-hour clip, and it'll be moving across far northern Cook County over the next 20 to 30 minutes. A little farther south, we've got some storms extending from Runaway Bay to just to the north side of Mineral Wells right now. They could produce wind gusts maybe up to about 40, 45 miles an hour and additional activity stretching farther south through Eastland County down into Brown County. These are really putting on quite a light show right now, especially down in Brown County. So here is a look at futurecast, kind of a ragged line of thunderstorms extending from northeast to southwest. That's 10 o'clock as we head towards 11 o'clock this evening. That's when I do expect some of this activity moving into western Denton County, western Tarrant County, more than likely just below severe limits, just based on radar trends at this point in time. Certainly there's a possibility a couple of these could briefly turn severe, but right now I would count on the bulk of the activity remaining just below severe limits. There's a look at midnight tonight. Through the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 1 o'clock in the morning, some strong gusty winds, maybe some pocket change hail in a few instances. By 2 a.m., this should be, for the most part, on the east side of Dallas and Fort Worth. And then we're going to see the threat of these strong thunderstorms through at least 5, maybe 6 o'clock in the morning. For eastern and southeastern portions of the area, including Canton, Athens, down through Fairfield, Maboe, up towards the Quitman area. And they move into east Texas, I think, probably by about 8 o'clock tomorrow morning so that most of Election Day. It's quiet across North Texas. These winds will really start to pick up out of the west-northwest as we head through the afternoon. Plenty of sunshine, very comfortable temperatures tomorrow, topping out in the low to mid-70s. And then Wednesday, we'll dial the winds down a little bit more. Lots of sunshine on tap and really beautiful fall weather setting up for the rest of the week. So here's your seven day forecast again, strong, possibly some severe storms overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's high 73 degrees. Clouds, some high clouds mixing with the sun Wednesday, 74. We'll get up to 77 on Thursday, and then a weak front will cool us off a little bit. Really beautiful fall weather, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, daytime highs, low 70s, nighttime lows in the upper 40s to low 50s.