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Downpours Soaking South; More Rain To Come

February 19, 2019
UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologists
An active storm track will bring rounds of downpours and thunderstorms across the Mid- and Deep South through the upcoming weekend. Flash flooding is possible from the persistent rain.
 
A soggy weather pattern, fed by a large influx of Gulf moisture will continue to bring heavy rain and even a few thunderstorms from Oklahoma eastward to the Carolina through the rest of today. The heaviest rainfall will be confined from northern Mississippi and Alabama up through Kentucky and West Virginia. Two to as much as 4 inches of rain may fall with this first wave of rainfall.
 
Flood Warnings, Flood Advisories and Flash Flood Watches are already in place from along the Mississippi River and lower Ohio River from eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi to southern Ohio and West Virginia.
 
Rain with embedded thunderstorms will continue through Wednesday across the lower Mississippi Valley and the Deep South, with only a brief lull of scattered showers by Thursday. The Gulf of Mexico will feed a new set of downpours Friday and Saturday hitting the exact same locations being soaked today and Wednesday. Staggering rain totals of 4 to 6 inches of rainfall will be common in the watch area, with locally 7 or 8 inches from western Tennessee into northern Mississippi by the end of the upcoming weekend.
 
Unfortunately, this rain isn’t really needed, as many cities in the South and Tennessee Valley are already 1 to 2 inches above average for the year so far.
 
If you come across water in the road, do not attempt to cross it, as it is likely deeper than it appears. Remember, “Turn Around, Don’t Drown!”