Flooding rain and extreme storms soak Texas, as record-breaking Thanksgiving journey will get underway

A line of thunderstorms blasted by way of North Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas early Monday morning, bringing wind gusts and heavy rain to the Interstate 20 and Interstate 35 corridors, as an estimated 73 million individuals started to journey for the Thanksgiving vacation.

More extreme storms are anticipated to threaten early Thanksgiving flights in these identical areas on Monday afternoon, as storms start to shift east. A broad low-level flash flood risk stretches from Austin to Nashville, Tennessee.

This identical climate system delivered highly effective extreme climate to West Texas, together with a supercell thunderstorm in Grandfalls, Texas, on Sunday afternoon.

Supercells are thunderstorms which have the facility to provide damaging winds, massive hail, and tornadoes.

More than 485 flights have been delayed into or out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Sunday, in line with aviation-tracking firm FlightAware.

A second spherical of thunderstorms is predicted to develop on Monday afternoon, which can transfer throughout North and East Texas. These storms additionally carry the potential to develop supercells.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, drivers touring Interstate 20 from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Alexandria, Louisiana, will possible see the worst impacts from these storms.

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a Level 2 out of 5 danger of extreme thunderstorms masking elements of East Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and jap Mississippi.

Houston is simply exterior the Level 2 danger, however may nonetheless see sturdy storms Monday afternoon.

Meanwhile, a Flood Watch covers elements of North Texas, together with the Dallas Metroplex, by way of Monday afternoon, as these storms repeatedly soak most of the identical areas. 

According to the FOX Forecast Center, most of those areas can count on 1-3 inches of rain by way of Monday.

The biggest flood risk is concentrated within the Ark-La-Tex area, the place NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center has issued a Level 2 out of 4 Flash Flood Threat that features Dallas, Shreveport, Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas, Jackson, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee.

Travel situations enhance for Texas on Tuesday as storms shift east, with the heaviest rains blanketing Alabama, Tennessee, and elements of Georgia, together with Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the nation’s busiest airport by quantity.