So what we've been talking about rain totals,
right? And I've talked to you
through how much it has changed.
Every time I hit refresh it just it changes,
right? This is a lot of information,
but the one I want you to focus on is
the 24 hour rainfall 8.86 inches of rain.
That is the second highest amount of
rainfall in a 24 hour period on record.
August rainfall now up to 9.75,
almost 10 inches.
The most that we have had since October of
2018, the second wettest August on record,
by the way.
And here is where the rain is.
It's not going anywhere just yet.
We continue to see some of that heavy
rain across portions of the Metroplex
zooming in here across the Metroplex,
Dallas Fort Worth,
Dallas, Tarrant County,
both under flash flood warnings until
1:00 this afternoon because we have seen.
A lot of rainfall.
There are parts of of Tarrant County
that have seen over 7 inches of rain and
it's still coming down and it doesn't
matter if it's coming down heavy or light.
At this point,
it's going to continue to cause
issues because that runoff is
now moving into our streams.
It's now moving into our rivers and
those are going to swell temporarily.
Now.
This is now showing you Monday 11:45
you can see some of that heavy
rain extending into Carrollton.
Even portions of Denton County.
No.
Denton County has been one of those
areas that hasn't seen as much
rain as the surrounding locations.
But now seeing a good dose of moderate
rainfall across the entire county,
Collin County seeing light rainfall
also still likely causing us some
slick spots on the roadways and
that heavy rain extends now S
into portions of Johnson and Ellis
counties now both under those flash
flood warnings as well until 1:15.
This is a radar loop,
so it's showing you over the past hour.
I'm doing this so I can show you.
How this is moving that band of
heavy rain moves from West to east.
Now extending from Cleburne all
the way to Midlothian along 67.
If you're familiar with that area and
it'll continue to cause some issues,
continue to cause some ponding
along those roadways as well.
And this is a long band of rain that
extends all the way into portions
of the Texas Hill Country South
of the big country.
And it continues to move on towards the east.
The flood watch,
by the way it has now been expanded
until seven for all of North Texas.
Before it was just for Interstate
20 and South.
Now it's all of North Texas is
going to be under that flood watch
for the remainder of of the day.
So our localized flood threat
is going to be greatest between
now and the early afternoon.
The flood threat does decrease
late afternoon,
but does not completely go away tonight.
The flood risk is going to
lower and the highest
risk is going to be for the Metroplex
towards the east and to the South.
That's where the rain is currently moving.
It's moving into these areas.
But don't get me wrong,
it's elevated just about everywhere.
I'm just highlighting the highest risk
for the flooding right here in the red.
We can still expect an additional
one to three inches of rainfall by
the time this is all said and done,
the highest totals to come
are still along East Texas,
where that area of low pressure is
currently pushing all this rain into.
Remember I showed you it's
moving all this rain to the east.
I'm not sure you the timeline now
this is Monday 2 in the afternoon.
The rain that's over.
The Metroplex now is going to shift
towards the South and towards the east.
That's why the highest totals will
be expected out here and we'll
notice that this rain continues
to taper off from north to South.
It'll be light by the time, say 4:00 o'clock.
Rolls around a lot of us
driving around that time,
but still going to see some
issues on our roadways.
This water is going to take
some time for it to recede,
so you got to be patient with it and
we are going to see the cloud cover.
We'll see some scattered showers
throughout the remainder of Monday
evening and then we'll see it
finally coming down overnight.
We'll still see some trouble spots.
So be careful out there.
So again,
just an overview of the storm timeline.
Around midday, the heavy rain continues.
The flash flood warning is still
going to be in place.
We are going to continue to see
those messy roadways this afternoon.
We'll see rounds of storms and showers
becoming less widespread and mostly
moving to the South and to the east.
And then evening, overnight hours,
some lingering showers.
The heaviest rain by that point will
be S and east of the area and we will
have temperatures staying in the low 80s.
Today that's a plus side,
right?
We'll continue to have highs in the
80s the next couple of days as rain
chances kind of linger with us,
but definitely not as heavy as
what we're seeing today.
Luckily,
because Stacia we are seeing
a lot of problems on our
roads. Fortunately,
I just saw another one about 5 minutes ago,
so this is a shot of I-20 at
Westmoreland in both directions.
Getting reports of high water.
Obviously you can see the water
is substantially high there,
but you had this vehicle.
This black car compact car small.
It was trying to make it
through and it stalled out and
it's been there the last five.
For 10 minutes.
So basically if you think it's too high,
don't even attempt to go through
this area because I think
everybody else was going through.
You have a lot of SUV's trucks,
bigger vehicles making it.
If you have a smaller car,
just not a good idea.
Any type of doubt you have at all.
I would definitely just not even
attempt those high water crossings.
Also, we're seeing again just a lot
of congestion across the Metroplex,
usually around this time.
It's pretty slow, not the situation.
Today.
Obviously I-20 South of Dallas
you have all kinds of problems
there with slow moving traffic 45.
30 another problem area.
Again, stay home if you can, mark.