As red flag warnings crop up across wide swathes of West and North Texas this week, a section east of Dallas-Fort Worth could see another kind of risk on Wednesday afternoon: punishing severe storms.

At 4:11 p.m. on Wednesday, the NWS Fort Worth TX released a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 11 p.m. The watch is for Collin, Dallas, Anderson, Delta, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Henderson,

Severe, isolated storms with threats of large hail and damaging wind gusts may develop in North Texas on Wednesday, NWS Fort Worth posted on X. There is also a slight threat of a tornado, according to NWS Fort Worth. The storms are expected to materialize east of Interstate 35 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Wednesday afternoon and evening.