Dallas Weather: Hail damages cars, homes across North Texas Sunday night
Severe storms brought large hail, caused power outages, and delayed flights in North Texas. Some people reported hail as large as softballs.
Many FOX 4 viewers shared wild photos and video of the hailstones near their homes.
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Viewer Shane Wilson in the Denton County community of Lantana shared video of his backyard pool getting a bombardment of hail.
Ben Taylor had a little bit of fun with the baseball-sized hail that fell at his house. He used some for batting practice.
Jeff Grubb, who lives in Bartonville, shared a picture of a hailstone that was at least 3.5 inches across.
Jeff Grubb in Bartonville
In Rockwall, Lee Griffin shared video of the hail piling up like snow drifts. It came off his roof and left much of his yard looking white.
Much of what he had was around marble sized but some of the larger pieces were around the size of golf balls.
In most cases, the extremely large hailstones didn’t come down for very long. But what did fall caused quite a bit of damage to cars, windows, roofs and solar panels.
A luxury SUV in Bartonville was no match for Sunday's hailstorm shattering windows.
Homeowners will no doubt be filing insurance claims this week.
Roofer Travis Rodenbaugh says the damage from Sunday's storm is the most he's seen in roughly a decade.
"I’ve already been on 3 roofs, and they’re all destroyed within a 10-mile radius of here," said Rodenbaugh. "This storm, it's one of the worst storms. The only thing comparable is back in 2016 in McKinney had a bad storm like this, but, I mean, seeing baseball-sized hail, not 1 or 2, but the whole roof is destroyed with baseball-sized hail. You’ve seen their cars and stuff. It is the worst storm I have personally seen, and I’ve roofed for about 9 years now."
Gary Bitsko in Flower Mound saw damage to his AC unit and shattered windows on two vehicles, in addition to roof damage.
"I saw hail balls that were 3 ½ inches," he said. "[It started as] small hail, then it just eventually got bigger and bigger. When I got into my house, that’s when the big ones came. It just came and came and pelted the whole place."
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Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties were among the counties under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on Sunday night.
A Flash Flood warning was also issued in Dallas County until 10 p.m.
The tree fell between Daniel Taylor’s house and his neighbors on Belmont Avenue in Lower Greenville area of Dallas.
"I heard the tree crack and looked over, and it just came down," he said. "It went from 0 to 100 in about a minute and a half."
There was no damage to the homes, But the clean-up will take a few days.
"It’s pretty rough. We had a bunch of stuff in our yard too. We had branches from this tree in our yard. There were pretty strong winds last night," Taylor said.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth recorded 60-mile-an-hour winds. Those gusts cleanly ripped up a tree from the ground. It landed on the hood of a car.
Another tree snapped in half, blocking Sophia Davidson’s driveway.
"It was raining so hard, and the wind was insane and then it starts hailing incredibly hard," she said.
Davidson spent the day trying to clear her driveway.
"I’ll either take the handsaw to it and try and clear the driveway or I’ll have one of my friends come over and chop it up," she said. "I haven’t seen a storm this intense before with the hail and the wind and the torrential rain."
FOX 4 saw Sam’s Club employees throwing out food that went bad because of a power outage.
Oncor says tens of thousands of customers lost power Sunday night. Crews were out all day working on power lines.
The storms also caused several flights to be delayed or canceled at DFW Airport and Love Field Sunday.
There were more than 550 delays at DFW Airport, and another 80 flights were scratched from the schedule.
At Love Field, the weather pushed nearly 140 flights off schedule, and about 20 others were canceled.
DFW is reporting about 70 cancellations Monday with just a handful of delays so far.
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FOX 4 Weather meteorologists said there are several more chances for storms in the forecast for the week.
Storms Monday night could be severe with another risk of large hail, high winds, and possibly a tornado.
A FOX 4 Weather map shows reports of hail in North Texas Sunday night.
The front will likely stall over North Texas thru mid-week. The heat and triple-digit temperatures Friday through Sunday will follow.