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Texas Motor Speedway Weather Forecast: Should We Be Worried about Storms?

I am looking at a warm and mainly dry forecast for Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. The only concern seems to be the chance of isolated storms around the area on Friday as instability combined with the passage of a dry line could spark a few. The storms don’t look widespread so I am not worried about storms for practice or qualifying it just needs to be monitored.

Thursday:
(2:00 p.m. CDT) 3:00 p.m EDT
Nationwide Practice – Mostly sunny - temp: 82
(4:00 p.m. CDT) 5:00 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup Practice – Mostly sunny - temp: 85
(6:00 p.m. CDT) 7:00 p.m EDT
Nationwide Practice – Mostly sunny - temp: 85

Friday:
(9:30 a.m. CDT) 10:30 a.m EDT
Nationwide Practice – Partly Sunny - temp: 76
(11:15 a.m. CDT) 12:15 p .m EDT
Nationwide Final Practice – Partly Sunny - temp: 79
(2:00 p.m. CDT) 3:00 p.m EDT
Sprint Final Practice – Partly Sunny, isolated storms - temp: 85
(4:00 p.m. CDT) 5:00 p.m EDT
Nationwide Qualifying – Partly Sunny, isolated storms - temp: 87
(5:30 p.m. CDT) 6:30 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup Qualifying – Partly Sunny, isolated storms - temp: 86
(7:30 p.m. CDT) 8:30 p.m EDT
Nationwide Race – Partly Sunny, isolated storms - temp: 83

Saturday:
(6:30 p.m. CDT) 7:30 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup Race – Mostly clear, windy Gust 35 mph
- temp: 82

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