00:00This is something you and I've been talking about all week and I know you're concerned
00:04about the flash flood threat in Texas. We are Bernie and it may not be a widespread event
00:11but the concern is that in some localized areas there can be some pretty serious flash flooding
00:16because we've got a deep feed of tropical moisture directed right at Texas and a slow moving upper
00:23low and Bernie as you always say we don't trust upper level lows. Look at the precipital water
00:28John. You know for our viewers if the atmosphere was a rag and you wrung out all the moisture
00:34out of the rag and you collected it that's what the precipitable water and those high moisture
00:41content levels are very concerning. They are very concerning and look where they're set up all the
00:47way from the Rio Grande to Texas Hill Country up toward the Dallas Fort Worth area and even southern
00:52Oklahoma and look at where the air is coming from. It's coming from all the way back to the Caribbean
00:57with a direct feed right up into this area and that's why we're concerned with such high octane
01:02moisture around the risk for flash flooding and persistent downpours is certainly going to be
01:07there. We've already seen it in parts of Texas this from a couple days ago but you could see that
01:13upper
01:13low John south of El Paso so you have the low level moisture. Look at all the blue and the
01:19white
01:19coming on in and the problem is John we have about a minute John that the upper low is going
01:25to be a
01:25very slow mover. That's correct it is moving though thankfully and this would be a more serious situation
01:32if it wasn't moving along so that it is in west Texas today and then shifts up toward north Texas
01:39into tomorrow. And when you look at the future radar here's the concerning thing watch how the
01:44thunderstorms just blossom today and what I don't like John they're oriented the thunderstorms from
01:49south to north and they're moving in that direction. Right that means repeated downpours
01:53over the same areas and notice it's not everywhere but into those near those thunderstorms there could
01:58be rain rates of one to two inches per hour that can result in some serious flash flooding in some
02:03areas especially near the Rio Grande and in the hill country where an area that's particularly
02:08susceptible to flash flooding Bernie then that shifts into north Texas as we head into tomorrow.
02:13Anywhere in that green John that's the concern we have about 10 seconds here.
02:17That's right watch out Rio Grande to hill country up to the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex that's where
02:22we're most concerned.
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