A tornado or two cannot be ruled out,’ the National Weather Service in Fort Worth says in its latest forecast.

Thursday is a First Alert Weather Day due to the threat of widespread heavy rain and strong to severe storms. Scattered showers are expected to develop in the western counties around sunrise and will move eastward throughout the morning.

Thursday is a First Alert Weather Day with the potential for severe thunderstorms in North Texas, though it won't be as rainy as Tuesday. Temperatures will be warmer, but the main concern is the risk of severe weather,

DALLAS — As storms moved through North Texas on Christmas Eve, they knocked out power for thousands of Oncort customers. By around 1 p.m., over 4,000 customers were affected by outages, according to the Oncor outage map.