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After early calls for mild impacts from a cold front across Texas, forecasters are now saying North Texas towns could be pummeled with 2-inch, or “egg-sized,” hail Wednesday afternoon. This would mark the second wave of hail to hit North Texas cities in less than a week after severe storms Saturday, March 8, toppled buildings and vehicles and killed a man.

The cold front blowing through Texas this week won’t likely have severe impacts on most of Texas. Though, the National Weather Service and meteorologist forecasts say North Texas is in the path of danger again this go around.

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“Increasing damaging hail risk Wednesday afternoon after 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.,” Ponder on Weather wrote in a post about the increased severe storm risk. “… Any cell that busts through the weak cap will quickly turn severe with large hail 2 inch + potential. Some cells could bow out with a damaging wind threat as they push into Northeast Texas. Low tornado [chance] still, but the main risk is big hail.”

Models show the large hail through looming over a large swath of Northeastern Texas, spanning from Dallas up to Sherman and Denison, by the border with Oklahoma, and east over to the border with Louisiana. According to the National Weather Service, hail odds are more likely along and east of I-35 in Dallas.

The national forecaster isn’t nailing down an exact time hail could drop from the skies, but it says any big hail to hit Texas should fall after 4 or 5 p.m. Wednesday. Over the weekend, 90 mph winds were clocked in North Texas towns. Again, forecasters say damaging winds could blow through the city, but it’s unclear how fast the air will be moving.