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  • 6 weeks ago
After two days of storms, the Salt River has swelled up in Shelby County, Missouri, on June 12. Storm chaser Dr. Reed Timmer says more rainfall will soak the area, which could increase the flood risk.
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00:00We have river flooding at the Salt River here in northern Missouri.
00:04This is from two days of big complexes of storms, mesoscale convective systems after
00:09the supercells congeal.
00:11They dump prolific amounts of rain, flash flooding converted to river flooding here.
00:16You can even see chunks of debris coming down from the individual flash floods.
00:20And this is probably just the beginning with a lot more rainfall coming tomorrow as well.
00:26So this will certainly set the stage for being a potential flood problem here.
00:31Again, flash and river flooding coming up tomorrow.
00:34We expect more MCS's to form overnight tomorrow night.
00:37Those are going to dump big time rainfall across Missouri into portions of Illinois.
00:42So we certainly need to monitor the hydrological portion of this severe weather event because
00:48there certainly could be a lot more flooding as these MCS's continue to pile up rain and
00:53the water from the individual flash floods piles up into these rivers just like the Salt
00:58River which is at 19 feet right now.
01:00So we're going to get the roof paint again after ours.
01:00Bring that out to the Déptimo Tuor.
01:01Well then I'll be waiting in with you souerifs of water with fire.
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