Storms return to Texas, north central US

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AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish and Damien Lodes break down the weather moving across the central US in the top story of June 11.

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00:00Days of severe weather bring a major flash flood threat. That's going to be tonight's top story.

00:04Damaging wind and hail will also make for another wet weekend across the south-central U.S.

00:08And meanwhile, storms return to the north-central U.S. as well as we reach the second half of the week.

00:13You can look for damaging wind gusts in Minnesota and Iowa.

00:16We're also going to continue to monitor hazy skies from those Canadian wildfires.

00:20We'll have more on that coming up in just a moment.

00:22But first, let's go and take a live look at Shreveport, Louisiana.

00:24This is one of those areas, Jeff, where not really much of a severe threat going on right now,

00:28but we are watching for some heavier rain to develop across this region.

00:33So overall, I was going to say, go ahead.

00:35No, I was going to say it's been very, very wet here.

00:36Every time we look at this camera, the roads are still perpetually wet.

00:39It hasn't been just coming and going.

00:41Yes, we are going to be watching out for some heavier rainfall.

00:43Now, the one thing I'll point out here across the southern plains in the southeast, at least,

00:47is that, yes, we don't have any ongoing severe thunderstorm warnings.

00:50Earlier this afternoon, we had five separate flash flood warnings.

00:54Four of those have since been allowed to expire.

00:56We still have this one isolated flash flood warning in effect for the far eastern Texas,

01:01the western Louisiana state line region right there up to the north.

01:04So we'll be watching out for that trend.

01:06But overall, you can see these showers and storms are still slowly lifting their way to the north.

01:10So as we take a closer look, we had one severe thunderstorm warning previously.

01:13That storm has since been allowed to expire.

01:15And as you look at the overall lightning intensity here for these storms,

01:18lightning intensity is normally a good gauge of just how strong a thunderstorm is.

01:23So the more lightning it produces, the stronger the storm is.

01:27And lightning intensity is also something you can watch for a trend on if a storm is intensifying

01:32or if it's showing signs of weakening.

01:35So you can see that overall, for some of these storms,

01:37the overall trend is that some of these storms are starting to see their intensity come up,

01:42which means that we could see a few isolated severe thunderstorm warnings,

01:45a few severe thunderstorms warned here as we go forward, including this storm right here.

01:51We also have these storms right here in northern parts of Louisiana.

01:54If we do see any severe thunderstorm warnings,

01:56it's going to be one of those three storms right there that we'll be tracking.

01:59Also, this storm here off to the south off the coast, that one's packing a pretty good punch,

02:02but it looks like that storm's intensity will come down some here as it works its way onshore.

02:07So this is going to be an ongoing developing situation here across this region.

02:10So once again, you can see that for a lot of these areas,

02:13the overall intensity of the storms has come down,

02:16but we are still going to be watching out for some flooding rainfall.

02:18As a matter of fact, the storm that we have here south of I-20,

02:21this storm right here that's moving just over Abilene right there that just developed over the last hour,

02:26that one's been raining so much that we now have a flash flood warning in effect for the Abilene area.

02:31So we'll be watching out for this trend as we go forward.

02:33But overall, here's you look at the overall scope of severe weather as we head into tonight.

02:38This is going to include a majority of the I-35 corridor from the Red River

02:41all the way down through the Rio Grande here for us, Jeff.

02:44Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, all these areas will be watching out for heavy rainfall,

02:49possibly flooding rainfall here as we head into tonight.

02:51And by tomorrow morning, we're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:54We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:55We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:56We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:57We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:58We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

02:59We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:00We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:01We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:02We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:03We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:04We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

03:05We're going to see some heavy rainfall in Houston as well.

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