Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Severe Weather & Flooding


The heavy rain potential is making more headlines from the National Weather Service Offices in Indianapolis and North Webster. Rain totaling 1 to 3 inches seems likely in a very short period of time over the area. With rivers and streams already near flood stages in many locations due to recent rain events over the past month, it will not take a significant amount of precipitation to being levels back up above flood stage.

Severe weather is possible but our potential is not as favorable as locations to our south and west. Our critical times looks to be after dark through the Friday morning. Again I wish to mention that overnight storms are some of the most deadly as people are sleeping and not aware of watches or warnings.

Things are rather active tonight in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. That system is what will move our way tomorrow and into Ohio Friday morning.

Keep tuned to local radio and TV tomorrow plus check back here for updates when possible. I unfortunately have some projects at work tomorrow that will not keep me as available to watch the weather as I would like.

As always, keep your weather radio handy too.

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