A First Alert Weather Day was in effect on Tuesday due to strong to severe storms that produced large hail and damaging winds, causing widespread damage across North Texas. As the severe weather moved through the metroplex,

More than a thousand customers are without power Tuesday morning as thunderstorms move through the area, according to the Oncor Outage Map.

The storm, part of a system stretching from Iowa to Texas, was expected to intensify, bringing the threat of blizzards, tornadoes and damaging winds across the central and southern United States.