Storm Summary Number 2 for Gulf Coast Heavy Rainfall
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
900 PM CST Wed Jan 24 2024

...A slow-moving front will bring bouts of heavy rainfall and the
risks of flash flooding from the Gulf Coast into the Southeast...

Flash Flood Warnings are in effect for portions of southeastern
Louisiana and southern Alabama.

Flood Watches and scattered areas of Flood Warnings are in effect
for eastern Texas/Texas Gulf Coast, across the central Gulf Coast
region and into the Tennessee Valley.

For a detailed graphical depiction of the latest watches, warnings
and advisories, please see www.weather.gov

At 800 PM CST...A frontal boundary, with a wave of low pressure
located near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border, remained nearly
stationary across Texas and into the mid-Mississippi Valley. 
National Weather Service radars indicated multiple organized
clusters of heavy rain and thunderstorms were moving across
western to central Gulf Coast states ahead of the stationary front
with the strongest thunderstorms passing east of Houston, Texas. 
Lines of thunderstorms with heavy rain were also moving into
southern Alabama near another stationary front.  An area of heavy
rain was moving into southwestern Mississippi.  Meanwhile, a new
area of showers and thunderstorms was developing and expanding
behind the stationary front across south-central Texas as an
upper-level shortwave was approaching from the west.

...Selected preliminary Storm Total Rainfall in inches from 700 AM
CST Mon Jan 22 through 800 PM CST Wed Jan 24...

...ARKANSAS...
ABBOT                                4.95                    
SILVER HILL                          3.83                    
LITTLE ROCK                          3.69                    
DANVILLE                             3.68                    
ST JOE                               3.64                    

...GEORGIA...
JESUP 5 NE                           3.00                    
EDEN 2 NW                            2.91                    
PEMBROKE 8 ENE                       2.83                    

...KENTUCKY...
BOWLING GREEN                        3.91                    
FALLS OF ROUGH                       3.68                    
LIBERTY                              3.29                    

...LOUISIANA...
SIMMESPORT 3 SW                      8.18                    
PALMETTO 4 WNW                       7.98                    
OPELOUSAS 2 NNE                      7.62                    
ATCHAFALYA RIVER                     6.55                    
CADDA LAKE DAM                       6.47                    
BEN LAMOND                           5.85                    
OUCHITA                              5.63                    
BIENVILLE                            5.00                    
ABBOT                                4.95                    
COFFEY ROAD                          4.34                    

...MISSISSIPPI...
OLIVE BRANCH AIRPORT                 8.70                    
KIRBY 7 NE                           7.18                    
HAZLEHURST 1 WSW                     6.36                    
PLEASANT HILL                        5.97                    
MEADVILLE                            5.81                    
CRANFIELD 5 SSW                      5.59                    
FLORENCE 1 SW                        5.19                    
CLEAR BRANCH 5 SW                    5.05                    
CLEARY 2 SSW                         5.01                    
BRUCE                                4.10                    
USRCN NEAR NEWTON                    3.49                    
GREENVILLE                           3.00                    

...TENNESSEE...
GERMANTOWN 3 N                       5.49                    
COLLIERVILLE                         5.11                    
MEMPHIS WFO                          4.80                    

...TEXAS...
BUCHNERS CREEK                       9.92                    
HUNTINGTON                           9.65                    
BRENHAM                              8.66                    
AYISH BAYOU                          7.89                    
HUNTSVILLE MUNICIPAL                 7.69                    
NECHES RIVER AT DIHOLL               7.50                    
CARMINE                              7.10                    
PORT ARTHUR                          6.85                    
HOUSTON                              1.56                    


Additional upper-level shortwaves are forecast to move off the
southern Rockies into the southern Plains over the next couple of
days and interact with the stationary front.  Multiple waves of
low pressure developing along the front will bring bouts of heavy
rain and thunderstorms that will only progress very slowly
eastward across the central Gulf Coast states.  This will keep the
threat of flash flooding in place through the next couple of days.
 Heavy rain may also be enhanced by thunderstorms training across
the same region.  Rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches, with local
amounts of 10 inches, are possible across sections of the Gulf
Coast through Friday.

The next Storm Summary will be issued by the Weather Prediction
Center at 900 AM CST. Please refer to your local National Weather
Service office for additional information on this event.

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