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>> A stormy start to the week.
Much of the area under a flash flood warning. Now you’re
flood warning. Now you’re
getting a live look from our
Houston
transtar camera.
>> So a live look now the roads
heading to Cyprus our storm
Tracker. Also on the move on to 90 just past the Beltway and
to 90 just past the Beltway and
a different perspective now
video taken in Huntsville just
after 3 o’clock. As you can see
unlikely here, the rain really coming down out there. We do
coming down out there. We do
want to govern chief
meteorologist Frank
Billingsley, who is tracking
the very latest of all this.
I want to start with some of
the rain totals that we’ve had
the last 3 hours from Harris
County flood control. You’ve
heard about the Kingwood flooding. There’s already a lot
flooding. There’s already a lot
of roads under water. Here’s
why. Look at these amounts of
San Jacinto River and 59 has
had 4.1 inches of rain. 3
inches. Pretty easy to find. That’s all the Kingwood area
That’s all the Kingwood area
just north of the test to see
the look back out there.
Cedar Bayou almost 6 inches
of rain. You go South where one 0.9 2.6 2.7 Garner’s by over
0.9 2.6 2.7 Garner’s by over
toward the airport. 3 inches
of rain there. 3.2 and all the
Westfield easy to find 2 inches
rain in the Cypress area where
you just our storm Tracker.
2.4, 2.2.
>> Fortunately so far we don’t
have any issues with the
bayous. They’re all in the
green zone want to go to
yellow. We’ll look for flooding
possible red indicates flooding
likely that’s a live look and that’s what we’re watching
that’s what we’re watching
there’s this flash flood or
flash flood watch through 7
o’clock in the morning on
Thursday what we have right
now is for this evening going on as we speak in the green
on as we speak in the green
boxes. You can see from Houston
to Conroe out towards
schulenburg and just to about
Brenham. Those are aerial flood
advisories. And then we have
flash flood warnings from
Liberty right through the Kingwood area down to I 10 and
Kingwood area down to I 10 and
back across into chambers
County. So obviously if you’re
driving in any of these areas.
Be careful, though I will say
this. The Lightning is
beginning to thin out a little
bit. That’s certainly good news. Maybe the system is
news. Maybe the system is
starting to get worked over a
little bit, but it is still on
the move right along. I 10 is
what we’re fighting most of
the action now as we continue to go into the rainfall totals.
to go into the rainfall totals.
Look at these numbers. 12
inches earlier in the Beaumont
area. They have flash flood
emergencies right there around.
I 10 parts of I 10 at a
standstill because of the heavy rain. So the futurecast
rain. So the futurecast
continues to push all of this
right through the area. 6
o’clock south of I 10 continues
to move 7, 8 o’clock right on
down down toward the coast.
And once we get into the late evening hours. We finally begin
evening hours. We finally begin
to catch a break, at least for
now. We’ll track all the way
through Thursday and Friday.
Coming up, Keith our Frank,
thank you. Remember you can
track the forecast any time you
want. All you have to do is download Frank’s.
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One of the areas hit hard right
now is Liberty County KPRC
two’s rose-ann Aragon live now in Dayton. Roseanne, what are
in Dayton. Roseanne, what are
you seeing out there right now
where you are.
>> Yes, there’s lots and lots of rain and the roads are
of rain and the roads are
definitely slick. Parts of the
road are
under water. Take a look at
this. We wanted to show you
this. We told you about this
area here in Dayton. We’re at highway 90 at highway 3 to one.
highway 90 at highway 3 to one.
So that’s what you’re looking
at right here where the Liberty
County Office of Emergency
management. Let us know
this underpass was under water.
So we went to find it. This is what it looks like. Highway
is what it looks like. Highway
3 to one at us. 90 in Dayton.
Is there up as you can see to
block the road other than that it has been raining for about
it has been raining for about
an hour straight at least large
section of us 90 are inundated
with water causing drivers to
drive with their hazard lights
on on the higher part of the road. There is thunder. There
road. There is thunder. There
is lightning heavy downpours
limiting visibility on the
roadway. We’ve seen many the
vehicles going very slow and traffic, especially in this
traffic, especially in this
area here near highway 3 to
one. The weather has also
caused lots of traffic in the
in different parts of the
roadways here. So we want to
make sure if you are in Liberty
County in this area. Please take it slow. If you can stay
take it slow. If you can stay
inside please stay inside and
dry safe reporting live from
Dayton rose-ann Aragon KPRC. >> 2 news be safe out there.
>> 2 news be safe out there.
Roseanne,
thank you.
>> And one person that we
always keep in touch with when
the weather gets bad like this
is meteorologist Jeff Lindner
with the Harris County flood
control district. We appreciate
you joining us. He’s live on
the phone
right now. Jeff, when when the
weather gets like this. Let’s
talk about on the status right
now of our streams in our bayous.
>> Right now. The Springs of
eyes and doing well across the
area. You know, the good news
is that we have seen the
rainfall rates shifting that
burden on to the South and
Southwest. So
that’s keeping any one particular area from getting
particular area from getting
too much rainfall. Are we did
have a host of 6 and a half
inches of rain over of fun and
about a 3 hour period. And so there’s certainly some
there’s certainly some
significant spring flooding
and the Huffman cross the King
won on Larry, especially down
to leading Bush
Intercontinental Reid’s plan
and that’s going to be
spreading southward into other
portions of the area over the next couple hours. Some really
next couple hours. Some really
right now you can see Street
flooding concern. Creeks and
bayous are doing well.
>> Jeff, you we’re expecting a bit of a break later this
bit of a break later this
evening was going to ramp back
up. But
another break tomorrow
afternoon. What’s your biggest
concern when it comes to this
evenflow that we’re going to see over the next few days.
see over the next few days.
>> Yeah. By far, the biggest
concern is is having something
like we saw yesterday near
Matagorda Bay word today over
here. But one for, you know, we get any type of
get any type of
rainfall rates. 8, 9, 1012,
inches of rain over Harris
We’re going to have some really
thinking something problem.
And so that’s what we’ll be
watching over the next couple
of days. Hopefully we will see enough breaks between these
enough breaks between these
rounds allowing everything to
trade off. Thank you, devise
increase from their banks.
But, you know, we’re really
asking people to pay attention
to the forecast. Through
Thursday and Friday of this week because we are going to
week because we are going to
see additional heavy rainfall.
We just don’t know exactly
where we’re going to see these
really intense rainfall that
we’ve seen the last couple days across the area.
across the area.
>> And Jeff, any further advice
for folks. Obviously we’re not
dealing with a hurricane.
We’re just dealing with that
with a rain event.
This obviously can you know,
situation for a lot of folks what what further advice do you
what what further advice do you
have over the next few days.
>> You know that the biggest
advice is the same today on the as we’ve seen, you know,
the as we’ve seen, you know,
we’re kind of looking at mid
week for the heavy rain.
We have heavy rain right now in
the area. So the forecast is
going to change as we move
through the next couple
of days. So pay attention to
the forecast chief updated. We do get any rain. Keep
We do get any rain. Keep
updated on the street flooding
potential transtar Houston
transtar is a great place to go
with their mapping. But the high water locations and always
high water locations and always
remember after important
mission of their Liberty
County. Always remember never
drive. And those high water of
beach. You saw that flooded
You do not want to drive into.
And we have a lot of street flooding, a lot of fun and
flooding, a lot of fun and
underpasses here over the next
couple days. So be mindful of
that span. Be careful when
you’re out Friday as far as the
creeks and bayous gold continue
to monitor Like I said, as long as we get breaks through the
as we get breaks through the
ranks of eyes will be able to
handle the rainfall. Instead we
get in and he’s concentrated
continuous really
heavy rainfalls that’s will not be concerned about the priest
be concerned about the priest
advisor going to be monitoring
all along with our partners
various transportation