Much-needed rain spreads throughout the Southeast

Thunderstorms and rain are spreading from the Ohio Valley to a large swath of the Southeast this week.

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00:00Limited impacts, but most likely this is going to hug the coast for a while, Damien.

00:03So we have big concerns coming into the mid-Atlantic coast.

00:06In the short term, we've had some beneficial rain into parts of Kentucky today.

00:09That's right. We've had some much-needed rainfall here, helping out with drought for a lot of this region.

00:13But the rain will continue here, even as we head into this evening across this region.

00:17But overall, Florida is still getting soaked by rainfall.

00:21So here's the overall zone that we were tracking between yesterday and today.

00:24So any area, any towns, any cities in this zone had the risk of flash flooding.

00:29We still have some effects, some impacts still being felt.

00:32You can see there in Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:34So the western portion of this zone had the rainfall yesterday.

00:37The eastern portion of this zone had the rainfall for today.

00:40We're seeing widespread 1, 2, even 3-inch rainfall totals being reported.

00:45And I wouldn't be surprised if we see a rain gauge 5 or even 6 inches here,

00:49especially across the eastern portion of this zone.

00:51We had some flooding rainfall there, pretty bad in Lexington here for today.

00:56Now the rainfall, the heaviest rain is starting to work its way into Charleston there.

00:59So West Virginia is seeing the heaviest rainfall currently.

01:02We also have this band of rainfall working its way across Tennessee,

01:05just to the south of I-40 between Nashville and Knoxville.

01:08But for northern parts of Alabama and eventually northern parts of Georgia,

01:12we'll be watching out for some showers rolling in here as the sun sets.

01:15But as we head into tonight, there will still be some lingering showers

01:18and even roams of thunder from areas like Jackson, Mississippi, Montgomery, Alabama,

01:22Nashville into Atlanta.

01:23We'll also be watching out for some showers early Wednesday morning for both Charlotte

01:27and Virginia Beach.

01:28Some roams of thunder there in Roanoke as we head into the overnight hours.

01:32Heading into tomorrow, there will still be some organized rainfall across South Florida

01:35and a majority of the southeast.

01:37The Gulf Coast there from New Orleans to Panama City, including Mobile and Pensacola,

01:41we'll see some soaking rainfall.

01:43We'll also see some soaking rainfall across the Carolina coastal areas heading into tomorrow.

01:47But I will point out one of the good things is that from central and northern parts

01:51of the Florida Peninsula, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Pete, Orlando, Jacksonville,

01:56you'll see a break from the organized rainfall chances here for tomorrow.

01:59So that will overall be pretty nice.

02:01But temperature-wise, we're still going to see some warming conditions to the south,

02:04including some widespread 80s and even some 90s there across central and south parts of Texas.

02:09We'll see you next time.