00:00Even tonight, we still have some severe storms on the map, and it's a more narrow corridor where we have
00:05big concerns from around Texarkana, Texas, and Arkansas, down into areas around northern Louisiana, and into areas around central and
00:14really southern Mississippi, far southern Alabama, and then into the Florida Panhandle.
00:18Narrow stripe, it's along and south of the front.
00:21It's no longer directly, primarily driven by Arthur, which has now moved off the Carolina and Georgia coast, but the
00:28moisture from Arthur is still present, still lingering, and there's a front that it's interacting with, so flash flooding is
00:34the concern of damaging wind in this area.
00:36If we get a little more specific here, we're looking at places like Texarkana in Monroe, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola,
00:43Florida there.
00:44Localized damaging wind in the next few hours, still flash flooding, and frequent lightning, the main concerns.
00:50The tornado risk is dropping down.
00:52Looking at future radar and clouds here, there's the stripe, these downpours here, kind of fizzling into the night, but
00:58then a new episode breaks out on Saturday, and it would be nice if we dried out more succinctly here,
01:06more quickly, drying out fully into the Gulf Coast states, and that's not really what we're expecting.
01:11There's enough moisture that we're going to continue to see daily thunderstorms over the next couple of days, though it
01:16will certainly be a lot drier than it was over the past few days.
01:20We had isolated reports of up to 30 inches in part of Louisiana, so again, more dry time is coming,
01:26but it's not 100% dry, so you can still see we're putting green on the map here for the
01:30Gulf Coast states for Saturday.
01:31Sunday, scattered thunderstorms for many of us, and Sunday, still some showers and storms, mainly favoring areas from Arkansas down
01:38into Florida.
01:39Some of the storms actually up this way near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers could be severe.
01:44We'll have more on that here this evening, and a little less in the way of rainfall farther south and
01:49west into parts of Louisiana and Texas.
01:51By the way, this area here, even though there may not be a whole lot of additional rain this weekend
01:57into next week, there will be very prolonged river flooding.
02:02This is really flat real estate here.
02:04There's not much elevation change, and there's not much of a change in the gravitational influence here.
02:11If you're up into the mountains and you have streams, they flow fast because of the change in elevation and
02:16the slope.
02:16If you don't have much slope to the land, there's not much to drive these rivers to motivate them to
02:23really flow quickly.
02:24So it's relatively flat land, and therefore long-lasting river flooding, moderate to major river flooding.
02:29There will be heavier downpours farther north into Monday and Tuesday.
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