Rounds of storms in the Southeast lead to flash flooding

Another stormy day in the Southeast on July 21 led to isolated flooding from Kentucky into the Carolinas and beyond.

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00:00As we move farther to the east, flash flooding continues to be the focus.

00:04It's been days of this at this point.

00:06I know if you're in this area, you don't need me to tell you that.

00:08But let's talk about the rainfall totals we've seen over the last 24 hours.

00:11So most of this yesterday afternoon and evening.

00:14Our top rainfall total coming in from Illinois here, 8.5 inches.

00:18That is the outlier here.

00:19Everyone else is seeing less than 4 inches of rainfall, really.

00:23But at this point, it almost doesn't matter.

00:26Because even these smaller rainfall totals, just about 2 inches, just about 1 inch or 1.25 inches,

00:32we're still getting flash flooding issues in these areas, again, because it's been days of this at this point.

00:39I want to show you our storm reports from yesterday.

00:41Yes, none of these are from today just yet.

00:43So that's a good sign that we aren't seeing these issues quite yet, but we're still seeing rainfall.

00:48Now, one of these reports coming in from Kentucky is talking about a creek out of its banks.

00:53I've been talking about the last couple of days that we could see this as an issue.

00:56Not really looking at river flooding, but some of the smaller waterways, streams, and creeks.

01:01With this amount of rainfall, this is not surprising that we're seeing creeks out of its banks.

01:06We're seeing some of these flooding issues.

01:08Other flood reports, flash flooding reports coming in, mainly flooded roadways.

01:12Some homes flooded.

01:14A lot of flooded roadways overall.

01:16We showed you those images of people trying to drive through flooded roadways,

01:20which, of course, we never recommend.

01:21Taking a look at radar zoomed in here, we do have a couple of flash flood warnings that have popped up,

01:26and even a severe thunderstorm warning or two.

01:28So, yes, these are smaller cells of thunderstorms, but they're carrying a lot of lightning,

01:32some damaging wind gusts, and, of course, that flooding threat.

01:35It really only takes an isolated downpour to end up with some flash flooding at this point.

01:40We'll continue to see this trend of isolated downpours through the evening.

01:43We're going to see things fizzle out, though, as we head into the overnight hours,

01:47and then we dry out for a couple days.

01:48That's the good news.