The National Weather Service has 74 active flash flood and flood warnings across 13 states — Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin — as the Mississippi River system continues to drive the bulk of the alert load and the geographic footprint widens from yesterday’s count.
The Mississippi River is the central thread. Flood warnings remain in effect at Thebes, Illinois, affecting Alexander and Scott Counties, and have been extended at Cape Girardeau, where the river is affecting Perry, Scott, Cape Girardeau, Alexander, Union, and Jackson Counties across Illinois and Missouri. The Cape Girardeau extension signals that the river system is not receding on schedule — it is holding or rising at key gauge points, pushing the warning timeline further out.
Further downstream, alerts stretch into the lower Mississippi Valley states of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Upstream, Michigan and Minnesota remain on the board, keeping the river system’s full north-to-south corridor under active watch.
In Texas, flash flood activity has been flagged across Ector, Midland, Andrews, and Gaines Counties in the west, along with an overlapping Flood Watch — issued jointly for portions of southeast New Mexico — that the National Weather Service has extended through 3 p.m. MDT / 4 p.m. CDT. Residents in the Houston weather market and across the broader Gulf Coast corridor should monitor conditions as moisture remains elevated across the region.
In southern Illinois, the alert zone has broadened to include Gallatin, Wabash, White, Lawrence, Clay, and Richland Counties in addition to the Alexander, Jackson, and Union Counties flagged in earlier cycles. Gibson and Posey Counties in Indiana are also under warning, reflecting the Ohio River tributary system absorbing runoff from the same weather pattern.
Where heavy rain has ended — including parts of the New Mexico-Texas border area — the National Weather Service notes that flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat but is urging drivers to continue heeding road closures already in place.
The National Weather Service’s standing guidance applies across all active zones: turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
With 74 warnings now active — compared to 78 at this time yesterday — the modest numerical decline does not reflect a broad retreat. The alert footprint has shifted and, in several river corridors, expanded. Conditions along the Mississippi and its tributaries warrant close monitoring through the coming days.