We do have a lot going on in the weather department this morning,
we do have team coverage tracking severe weather that's across the Houston area.
But first, the weather is now impacting six school districts,
Trinity ISD and Madisonville CISD are both closed today.
Students at Coron Camden ISD and Texas City ISD are on a two hour delay.
And finally, students at Shepherd ISD and Cold Spring,
Oakhurst ISD are on a one hour delay.
Meteorologist Chris Ramirez and Kim Castro are all here along with Jennifer Rena,
who's there covering traffic and weather.
Chris. We're going to start with you. What's on the radar. Yes.
And of course,
we're still dealing with those showers and storms and very heavy rainfall.
I know you were talking about Madisonville ISD.
They were dealing with a confirmed tornado yesterday and this is all a part of the
slow moving storms that are been moving through
the area within the past several hours.
So of course,
like we've been saying that flash flood warning currently in effect along the
10 quarter, this does include Chambers,
Harris and Liberty Counties for areas east of the city of Houston.
So if you are heading in the direction towards Beaumont.
I know we have a lot of refineries in this location. A lot of folks work out here.
Just keep in mind that we're dealing with that
flooding threat increasing as well as another flood,
uh,
flash flood warning in effect for Galveston
counties as it's still heavily raining.
We're still seeing scattered showers across Houston,
heavy downpours still in place,
but we are definitely seeing a lot of rain within the past several hours.
Kim Castro.
Yeah, that's having effects for a large areas like all on the east freeway,
the golf freeway, but also specific locations like on
caught
by you at
Lakes Champions Boulevard.
So we've got a flood gauge that's been warned
by the Harris County Flood Control district where flooding is
likely the stage is 30 ft and right now we're over 31 ft over the last couple of hours.
Heavy rain impacts that spot there in orange, six inches of rain.
That's just in the last three hours. Lots of spots
north of town got closer to 10 inches of radar indicated rain.
So when does this all wrap up? Well, we see that the rain is focused along the coast.
So we're just about an hour away from seeing a big improvement here area wide.
So we'll take you to future track
by 7730. I think a lot of the shower activity is gone.
We'll see a couple of isolated downpours from out go
to
and the rest of the day j will be very focused
on the clean up efforts and watching those water level.
Yeah, there's a lot to clean up and there's a lot of water that needs to recede. Ok.
At this point in time, 630 in the morning, we usually see our whole and try
that traffic map in the red.
The grid isn't so lit up because a lot of
folks staying home because we have such bad weather.
Maybe it woke you up, maybe work the pets up this morning.
But yes to the coast, we are concerned.
Still Galveston, Galveston County all the way up through Tiki Island.
Hitchcock parts of highway three southern parts of 146
meeting the Gulf freeway are right now saturated.
We do have this one car spin out on the golf freeway.
Hov Lane at Monroe main lanes at Monroe are also
pretty packed near hobby airport due to an earlier crash.
So Hov Lane is running with no delays, especially inside of 610.
Obviously at the Monroe Park and Ride,
you won't be even able to enter north Freeway at Cypress
would a left lane is still block with this crash.
It's been a spin out. So the slippery road conditions are definitely impacting
local drive times. Here we go as we spin the traffic wheel.
Baytown 22 minutes in the town, Woodlands, 44 minutes down I 45
J.
Thank you as we've been telling you we
have dangerous weather conditions in our northern counties.
Overnight.
Officials say a tornado may have touched down in Trinity County
and there were a dozen water rescues in Walker County.
Our
Stephanie Whitfield is live for us this morning on
FM 2989 where the road is still closed.
Stephanie, what else can you tell us?
Well, right now, officials say this road behind me is so dangerous.
They don't even want us walking past the barricade about
a quarter of a mile down the road behind me,
there's a tree in the middle of the road and then beyond that,
it's totally washed out.
Take a look. Crabs.
Prairie Volunteer Fire Department shared a picture of that spot overnight.
We're told there's a 25 ft drop. This is one of several roads
that either was or is still closed this morning.
Upwards of six inches of rain fell in Huntsville overnight.
The Walker County Office of Emergency Management says
crews had to make 12 water rescues.
Harmon Creek also went over its banks, putting homes and several cars at risk.
A man who's lived in this area for over
20 years says he's never seen flooding like this,
but normally the thing will go down fast but it ain't right now.
It it's still rising
in Trinity. The sheriff there says a possible tornado touched down on FM 2262.
You can see the roof was totally blown off a house.
It also flipped two cars over, we're told minor injuries were reported there.
So later this morning,
the National Weather Service will have to visit that
scene to confirm if it was in fact a
and how strong it was. But this morning, it's a very different story.
The weather here in Huntsville has cleared up a
lot so flooding is not a concern anymore.
And now emergency officials will shift their attention
to clean up reporting live in Walker County.
Stephanie Whitfield K
11 news.
All right,
Stephanie a little bit of good news for residents there to
start off the morning with that video was pretty intense.
That is they're dealing with up there and now we are seeing the
extent of the storm damage in other parts of Texas as well.
Here are three big Texas weather headlines
starting northeast of Huntsville in Trinity.
This video here taken in an area that's located about 30
minutes north of Trinity where heavy rains made a highway completely impassable
and this video was taken in College station showing the
rushing water at the creek and according to Rusty.
So
with the CBS affiliate in Brian, this creek is now flooded.
That thing is gigantic.
That was the scene yesterday evening in Madisonville,
which is just west of Trinity.
That cone is just one of several social
media reports of potential tornadoes in Madison County
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