Showers mostly tapered Wednesday evening, and now our focus shifts to the overnight hours, as our cold front lifts back through North Texas as a warm front. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect through 8 a.

At 1:27 a.m. on Thursday, the NWS Fort Worth TX issued a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 8 a.m. The watch is for Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant, Wise, Bosque, Comanche,

FOX 4 meteorologist Dan Henry takes a look at the potential for severe storms and large hail in North Texas on Thursday morning.

Forecasters issued some of their rarest and most extreme alerts on Wednesday as they warned a powerful storm system would stall over the central part of the country.

The National Weather Service says a "multi-day catastrophic and potentially historic" storm is expected to impact multiple states as violent weather was reported across the South and Midwest Thursday.