Flash flood warnings scattered throughout the Southeast as downpours arrive for days
Thunderstorms are expected to be widespread across the southeastern U.S. from July 23-25.
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00:00Our top story takes us to the south where we're going to be dealing with some heavy rain daily downpours this week and with that come the risk for flash flooding like we've seen here in Kenner, Louisiana earlier today, it looks like a few inches of water on the road there.
00:13Yeah, definitely lots of ponding going on there. We're going to take you out live to Asheville, North Carolina. Love it, love it, love it here. There's the Biltmore, or not the Biltmore, the Grove Park Inn rather.
00:22We're looking out over the golf course. You can perhaps see a little bit of Blue Ridge there in the backdrop. We've been following some of the downpours here in North Carolina earlier on Durham reporting some flash flooding too, Jeff.
00:34Yeah, there's a lot of action out there into eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Quick look at the current radar for this area. There is a persistent zone of rain to the south of Asheville.
00:43Not seeing much lightning tied to that, but there is some lightning up into the tri-cities near Kingsport, Johnson City as well and approaching Bristol there in the beautiful tri-cities of northeast Tennessee.
00:57We have a few areas with some flash flooding ongoing. We're going to take you into the area south of Louisville, Kentucky in Jefferson County still until 9.30. Flash flood warning in effect south and east of the city.
01:07Breckenridge County, flash flood warning there near Hardinsburg into the southeast until 8.30 p.m. central time just west of the time zone line.
01:15And we also have some flash flooding into Tennessee there, into Scott County a little bit west of I-75, southwest of the area of Jellicoe Mountain. Flash flooding also into Portsmouth and some other areas around Newport News into the southeast part of Virginia.
01:30We've seen some improvements in Durham. We did begin the afternoon, at least our live coverage here, with some flash flooding there. And scattered thunderstorms continue to move through an area along just barely east of Interstate 95.
01:42Right over Florence there, heavy lightning and rain near Florence into the southeast there. And we mentioned the Savannah problems, flash flooding still. Flash flood warning trimmed down just to Chatham County there until 8 o'clock.
01:53So we're not done with it yet. Still some high water. Be careful out there. We were looking at those flooding reports earlier. And again, after a dry start to the year, second dry spring in a row in Tampa, welcome rain there moving through an area near the south side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and creeping offshore at this hour.
02:12Current temperatures showing low 80s for a lot of us. A little bit cooler up into Raleigh thanks to the recent rain. 78 there, but we're still holding on to 90 in New Orleans. And the rain is tied to, at least in Florida's case, it's tied to a tropical wave that is very disorganized. It's middle of the road, relatively weak to moderate tropical wave that is bringing some downpours and increased thunderstorm potential for tomorrow.
02:36Maybe twice the typical number of Florida thunderstorms for a mid to late July day. We're going to be dealing with even the risk for water spouts. It's going to generally favor the Gulf Coast side of the state tomorrow as this is traversing South Florida right now. So Tuesday, many thunderstorms on the map here into areas from the Gulf Coast into the southern part of the Appalachians there with scattered thunderstorms, areas of rain. Tuesday afternoon, they become more widespread late afternoon, early evening, and they're at their most widespread for the day, and then they come down to a minimum.
03:06We do it again on Wednesday, a very subtle southeastward shift here. It's not a strong trend, but there's a weak shift toward the coast. So Wednesday, here we are high as compared to average, still a bit cooler than the norm. Look at this 13 degrees below average in Jackson, almost entirely due to thunderstorms and the rain near normal into Florida and Raleigh as well. But you can see we begin to dry things out in the interior, but still stormy for the Gulf Coast and into the southeast coast as well. Justin.