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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00:00 Rounds of storms are going to be a concern in the middle of the country today.
00:04 You can see the first of them cruising through southern Iowa and eastern Missouri, right
00:10 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.
01:11 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?
01:58 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.
02:18 The mid-tier green for cities like Omaha and Nashville is where we could see two to four
02:22 inches of rain by Saturday.
02:24 And the neon green along the outside is where we could see one to two inches of rain.
02:28 Regardless of which level you are in, this heavy rain is going to be a concern.
02:33 And again, flooding is top of mind as we move through this week.
02:37 Stay tuned to the forecast and we'll be here to help you through the storms.