Drenching thunderstorms to continue soaking the Gulf Coast and Southeast

The effects of a tropical rainstorm in the Gulf of Mexico will cause days of heavy rain from Texas to the Carolinas.

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00:00So as we zoom out to take a look at the rest of the Gulf Coast what's happening right now is we

00:03have this tropical rainstorm right here off the Gulf Coast and what that does is that creates an

00:08area of low pressure and what that does is that has what we call counterclockwise spin so you can

00:14slowly look if you look at the the motion of those showers and storms just now coming on shore you

00:20can see that they are rotating in a counterclockwise motion and what that's doing is whenever that

00:26happens and these things are moving like this they move very slow so whenever you get this

00:31heavy rainfall right now moving that slow that's whenever you can slowly start to see the rainfall

00:36totals just increase increase increase and that's exactly what's going to happen here as we head

00:41into this afternoon and as we head into this evening the other area I want to take a closer

00:45look at here is going to be parts of Wyoming and Colorado this is going to be across the

00:51it's going to be across the Rockies and earlier there were some severe thunderstorm warnings

00:55ongoing but as of right now all those severe thunderstorm warnings have been allowed to expire

00:59which is good but there will still be a few strong thunderstorms passing from time to time you can

01:04see a lot of lightning right there passing just to the northeast of Denver but from Cheyenne down

01:08through Fort Collins there's this little band right there of showers moving in some lightning

01:12associated with those so you will hear those rumbles of thunder before the strong rainfall

01:17and the heavy rainfall pushes its way in so we will be watching these areas very closely but

01:21it's primarily going to be this area of low pressure off the gulf coast that's what's going

01:25to bring our biggest chance of showers and storms as we hit throughout the next couple of days

01:29and that tropical rainstorm is going to bring drenching thunderstorms here across the southeast

01:34and the gulf coast over the next couple of days and then that area of low pressure is going to

01:38slowly work its way on shore that's going to bring some heavy heavy rainfall look at these

01:43rainfall projections as we head throughout the next couple of days widespread heavy flooding

01:47rainfall across parts of Louisiana but it's going to be primarily the Florida panhandle parts of

01:53Alabama parts of Georgia where we're going to see the heaviest rainfall some of this could be

01:58very dangerous here as we head throughout the next couple of days Jeff absolutely and that

02:02flood concern is going to be with us right through the end of the week as we travel farther east.