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Disruptive storms to persist across central US
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8/2/2023
Additional waves of severe thunderstorms will track across the Plains this week, bringing the risk of flooding, damaging winds and travel disruptions.
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Rounds of storms are going to be a concern in the middle of the country today.
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You can see the first of them cruising through southern Iowa and eastern Missouri, right
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across the state line toward southern Illinois and western Kentucky.
00:14
We do have problems with flash flooding already.
00:16
We've seen plenty of it this morning, and we have concerns for flooding and flash flooding
00:20
later today.
00:21
You can see all the green here behind me, your flood and flash flood watches and warnings
00:26
here, aerial flood watches and aerial flood warnings even into Kirksville.
00:31
You can see Jefferson City out toward Mount Vernon, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky, all
00:36
in green here as the flooding rain continues.
00:39
That's going to be the trend really throughout the entirety of the day here.
00:43
Watch future rainfall as the rain just overtakes the same areas.
00:47
It's already fallen.
00:48
It's like we're coloring in the lines.
00:50
From Kansas City across to St. Louis, you can see the green, the deep green, the yellow
00:55
and orange representing the heaviest rain.
00:58
And that's just today.
00:59
More on the rain in a second, but we also have concerns within this band of storms for
01:03
severe weather as well.
01:05
Cities like Kansas City, Springfield and Paducah are in the some risk for spotty severe weather
01:10
today.
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Then we have St. Louis, which not only can see the heaviest of the rain, but the moderate
01:15
risk for severe storms, meaning more numerous storms are possible in this area.
01:19
Make sure you're staying weather aware because it's not, again, just the flooding, but we're
01:23
also looking at damaging gusty winds and some isolated tornadoes.
01:26
That is a nasty combination in this part of the country.
01:29
Now back to the rain, because even after today, the soaking rainfall continues.
01:34
It's all happening on the periphery of high pressure to the south.
01:37
And essentially that high pressure is creating a train track and the rain, well, think of
01:41
that like your train cars here from Omaha to St. Joseph, St. Louis, all the way back
01:45
to Knoxville, Tennessee.
01:47
We have those rounds of rain continuing all the way through Saturday morning.
01:51
We also could see some, again, nasty conditions with thunder, lightning and some gusty winds
01:55
too.
01:56
How much rain are we looking at overall?
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Well, here's a breakdown of the numbers.
02:00
You'll see the two bullseyes in forest green, the first right around St. Louis, stretching
02:04
into central Missouri, and the second right into the Great Smoky Mountains across the
02:08
state line into North Carolina, cities like Knoxville and Sevierville in that area as
02:13
well.
02:14
Those two dark bubbles are where we could see four to eight inches of rain.
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The mid-tier green for cities like Omaha and Nashville is where we could see two to four
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inches of rain by Saturday.
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And the neon green along the outside is where we could see one to two inches of rain.
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Regardless of which level you are in, this heavy rain is going to be a concern.
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And again, flooding is top of mind as we move through this week.
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Stay tuned to the forecast and we'll be here to help you through the storms.
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