Waco area under wind advisory
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory until 6 pm for all of North Texas, including Waco and surrounding counties. Winds from the north to northwest of 25 to 30 mph are expected, with stronger gusts during daylight hours.
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Waco under flash flood warning
UPDATE 3: The flash flood warning for McLennan County has now been canceled.
UPDATE 2: Waco airport now at 3.67 inches so far today. The total for the month, by my reckoning, is 9.19 inches, making this the second wettest August on record for Waco (No. 1 is August 1914, with 9.98 inches). And there’s still 12 days to go for this August…
Morning breaking-news blogger Ken Sury reports 1.9 inches at his house in Woodway; the gauge on the Trib roof has 2.5 inches.
UPDATE: Waco Regional Airport is reporting 3.25 inches of rain in the last hour. The gauge on the Tribune-Herald roof has 2 inches of rain.
Original text: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… MCLENNAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
UNTIL 945 PM CDT
AT 648 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN NEAR BELLMEAD…MOVING EAST AT 24 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. ANOTHER 2 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 945 PM CDT.
LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE…WACO…HALLSBURG…BELLMEAD…WEST…NORTH CREST…
AND RIESEL.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER… MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
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