Page 828 - Flash Flooding News Today

So it piles up on the streets. we see it on the sidewalks. you see it in parking lots, parking garages, you see it basically go wherever it can go. and unfortunately this water still has nowhere to go, and it still is pouring in the same areas. flash flooding is a concern through the night. all warnings in effect until 4:00 a.m. central time, thats just for flash flooding. those floods that create rushing water like you see on the screen, you also have regular flooding, river banks and creeks th...

The rest of the night chance of strong thunderstorms, but that threat, especially in oklahoma city of tornadoes, very powerful tornadoes, is lessening at this point. i want to show you this map here. it doesnt look like much, but the red boxes indicate areas where we still have tornado watches in effects through eastern missouri, down through areas across central and southern illinois. you see the filled in red boxes across southwestern illinois. we are going to see thats where the severe thunde...

Near the rio grande all the way across the mid mississippi river valley, tennessee river valley and towards cleveland. this is the area that could see a slight risk of severe weather today, meaning damaging winds, threat of large hail and maybe some isolated tornadoes. they would be fewer today but still a chance that a few of those could pop up. that line moves east tomorrow. so the area that would be at risk would be across new england. down towards albany. new york city. philadelphia, baltimo...

Now they have shifted more to arkansas. big flash flood threat throughout the ozarks. notice little rock in the bottom middle of your screen okay for now but you will deal with some of the storms as we go through the later portions of the morning. were hearing about really nasty flooding conditions south of st. louis especially down around paducah, kentucky hearing about one of the worst flash floods that youve dealt with in many, many years if not decades. again, further to the south there is t...

However, there could be isolated tornadoes that will develop. not the activity we saw yesterday. but there will be some severe weather breaking out across the plains states and across the mid-mississippi river valley and into the ohio valley today. theres a threat of damaging winds, hail, and also isolated tornadoes. not as many, maybe not as large. anywhere from killeen, texas, dallas, memphis, nashville, up to cleveland. maybe even near the detroit area that could see some of the severe weathe...

With a good day to you. pretty shaken looking at all of the video. >> it is. >> worst of the storm, is over? >> depends where you are, alex. for most of oklahoma and kansas, severe threat is over. still residual effects from the flooding in many areas. but that line is finally moving out of oklahoma. however, its moving east and south towards other areas that are now in the line of fire. dallas, up towards memphis, bowling green, paducah, kentucky, flash flooding, first of all. thats the biggest...

>> and you. lets go back to meteorologist dylan dryer, getting amazing pictures of flooding, that one there, cars are floating and underwater. what exactly is the flooding situation on the ground at this point? >> the flooding situation is a longer duration concern throughout the rest of the night as the torrential downpours continue. we have flash flood warnings across a good part of the midwest back into the plains. there you see the water rushing. imagine taking a wet sponge, the ground has b...

Reports and that tornado actually traveled across the mississippi river into areas of illinois. you see all the storm reports from yesterday. it was a very violent day. let me start your saturday and let you know who is at risk today. so you can make your plan. let you know who is safe and who is not. were shifting the severe weather threat a little further to the south and a little further to the east. happy to say that oklahoma city, much of central oklahoma, you get your break today. you may ...

Here in el reno we have damage south of us to union city and had damage on i-40 quite a bit from el reno east to yukon. >> okay. you heard our meteorologist bill karins talking about flash flooding. is that a problem in your area as well? >> yeah. bill is exactly right. what happened is oklahoma is flat anyway but the rain just kind of kept going over us and theres just another series or two with the tornado that laid down and started in el reno. the problem is we had a lot of rain. 6, 7 inches ...

If you get a warning that a tornado is in your location, take action, you have an action plan to take cover and take shelter. put as many walls between you and the tornado and get down low. >> youre actually worried about an ef-3 or ef-4? the one that hit moore, oklahoma was actually an ef-5 which was 200 miles an hour. >> a lot of this depends on what is struck. i mean, these ratings are based on damage that the tornado inflikts on structures. so many times well see tornadoes form in open count...