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NBC 5 crews drove across North Texas Wednesday tracking the conditions from severe storms. Alicia Barrera reports near Stephenville, southwest of DFW, where the storms pushed through.

When hail comes knocking, consumers may find a contractor at their door offering an inspection or repair. Some may insist the consumer would need to act fast.

NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Rick Mitchell asks, how fast can a baseball-sized hail fall?

NBC 5 Chief Meteorologist Rick Mitchell explains the various sizes of hail North Texans can see during severe weather, sorted from the most common to the rarest and most damaging.

NBC 5 viewers shared photos of hail from Burleson, Mansfield, Forney and the Rockwall County towns of Rockwall, Fate, Heath and McLendon-Chisholm.

Surveyors from the National Weather Service determined Wednesday that the tornado that tore through central Texas was an EF-3 with winds of more than 135 miles-an-hour. County officials said the path of that damage was eight miles long and a quarter mile wide… leaving families devastated.

Cleanup has begun in Bell County after an EF-3 tornado tore an 8-mile path through Salado leaving dozen injured and homes and at least one church destroyed.

At least 23 people were hurt, at least one critically Tuesday evening when a tornado moved across central Texas not far from Salado.

Six years after a history-making hailstorm struck the city of Wylie, audio of some of the 911 calls made that day were released. In the two-minute-long audio, dispatchers answer calls from frantic drivers who took a direct hit from the hail.    “It was like nothing I’d ever experienced,” said Wylie dispatcher Sara Zerger. Zerger and her co-workers at...

Storm chances are on the horizon for North Texas over the next couple of days with the possibility of severe weather.

Thunderstorm chances will increase over the next few days.

Violent storms killed at least two people, one in Georgia and another in Texas, on Tuesday as hail, strong winds and tornadoes tore across the South, where authorities warned a second day of dangerous weather of violent weather could follow.