Posted on 08/04/2023 5:02:58 AM PDT by Paul R.
FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING FOR CENTRAL OBION AND WEST CENTRAL WEAKLEY COUNTIES...
At 626 AM CDT, Trained weather spotters reported thunderstorms producing heavy rain in Green Acres Mobile Home Park where evacuations are taking place. Between 9 and 11 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is already occurring.
This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Union City. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!
(Excerpt) Read more at forecast.weather.gov ...
Radar still showing heavy rain upstream. 2 weeks ago, Mayfield, KY (etc.) received record rains. Yesterday morning it was SEMO that “got it” (worst / heavy rains & flooding — here, yesterday we had a potent storm that took down a tree on the east part of our property, right across the path I’d recently cleared / re-cleared of storm debris!) Guess I’d better pull out the wading boots again (much of our yard is flooded again, but our house is fine).
So much for our drought.
“Somebody” seems to have switched May / June for July / August!
It has really a “backwards” pattern for us, for this time of year: Instead of, when we do get rain (generally not much in July or August), the usual dinural pattern of spotty afternoon to early evening t-storms has been traded for “training” storms with often heavy, extended rains, overnight through noon of the next day.
More properly: “It has been...”
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