North Texas breaking daily rainfall
records up to 7 inches in just
three hours in some places.
Cars underwater and that
rain not letting up yet.
The flash flooding emergency across
the area this midday at 11:00
o'clock as we come on the air,
a live picture driving along northbound
I-35 E just past Northwest Highway.
That's in Dallas.
We have crews all across our area
monitoring conditions on the roadways,
at airports and at emergency
shelters as well.
Thank you for joining us this midday.
Denmark is took and we've got our
entire WNBA team in this midday,
including weather and traffic.
Right now we're seeing high
water across North Texas.
Here's video Justin out of Ball
Springs fire crews rescuing a
woman from her flooded home there.
Get this. More than 10 inches of
rain has fallen in that area of
Dallas County. In the meantime,
we've seen cars completely
submerged underneath water,
water rushing into homes, a dangerous
situation and the rain still
coming if you do not have to head out today.
Authorities are asking you to
stay home the roads simply so
difficult to traverse this morning.
Want to get over to our meteorologist,
Mario Ruiz? We've talked so much about
how much rain we've needed this summer,
we just didn't need it all
to happen at one time.
Absolutely. When we're talking about
drought over several months and
a rain deficit of over 15 inches,
our ground is hard and it's not
going to soak up as much rain as
it normally would, unfortunately.
So it's causing all of this runoff.
I want to show you now how widespread
this rain is across North Texas,
and this is over the past six hours it
has been consistently this widespread.
I'm going to take you in now and take
you through some of the warnings
that are in place because we do
have several flash flood warnings
starting off in Tarrant County,
this one in place until one and it's
4 rainfall in addition to what's
already fallen of 1 to 3 inches across.
Portions of Dallas County were
also under a flash flood warning.
This has been extended several times
in time now until 1:00 this afternoon.
We have seen portions of Dallas County
get over 9 up to 10 inches of rainfall.
Another band of heavy rain moving in
from Irving to Grand Prairie Duncanville,
and this is moving into Central
and eastern Dallas County,
where we've had several inches
of rain over the past few hours.
There was another flood warning
that has been canceled for Kauffman.
County I'm not surprised,
though I I would not be surprised.
I should say if it does get extended
or reissued for Kaufman County by
the National Weather Service,
it's a wait and see kind of game.
Another flash flood warning for
Ellis County until 1:15.
This is another area that has been heavy
hit with rain in the past 24 hours.
Another band of rain already moving
in from Midlothian to Cleburne into
Johnson County into Ellis County.
And this will happen over the
course of the next hour.
I am expecting anywhere between one
to three additional inches of rain.
In the next several hours so
the rain is not done yet.
This is the most amount of rainfall that
we have had in a given month since 2018,
so it has been several months.
In fact,
a couple years since we've seen
this amount of rainfall in this
short period of time,
our flood watch is in place,
especially for areas South of
Interstate 20 until 7:00 this evening.
That is because the flood threat that
is currently over the Metroplex is
going to shift S throughout the day.
I'll talk you through when and
where we're going to see that.
Rain moving into that's all coming
up in a few short moments.
But first we got to get an update
on our traffic.
Our roads have just been a mess this morning,
stacia.
How's it looking?
Yeah, morale and they have
consistently gotten worse.
This is a look at an accident 635 southbound
in Garland Rd involving an 18 Wheeler.
One of the problems also with
collisions that we're seeing all
across the Metroplex is that they're
taking longer to clear because there
are so many first responders having
to respond to multiple problems in
Mesquite 635 northbound at I30.
Another collision.
There and we also have high water reports
along 635 at US 80 as well as 352.
So a lot of problems there.
Mosquito along 635 overall.
You can see that rain is still prevalent
across the Metroplex still coming
down out there like Mariel said.
And then in Dallas County I30
eastbound the exit ramp is blocked
at I-45 as a result of high water.
We've had a lot of problems again
around 45 and 30 and then also
just what we're seeing another
collision where the road is blocked.
Texas 183 westbound between Texas 114.
And Texas 12 also checking
Tarrant County for you.
We just heard from the Fort Worth
Fire Department they tweeted
within the last hour that they are
responding to 25 high water rescues.
So that kind of puts into perspective with
situation that we're dealing with here.
Now. If you can stay inside,
avoid the roadways.
Avoid going out in this mess
until it gets better.
I would advise doing so.
That is,
look at your commute.
We're going to keep following this
for you and keep updating you Mark.