Flash Flood Warnings pulled back to 106 active alerts Friday — down from Thursday’s count of 122 — but the multi-day event held its 15-state footprint and redirected its sharpest impacts toward the Texas-Oklahoma corridor and the Alabama-Florida Gulf Coast.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth issued a warning early Friday covering Dallas County, southwestern Collin County, and southeastern Denton County in north-central Texas, where Doppler radar confirmed 1 to 3 inches of rain had already fallen by 7:44 a.m. CDT, with the alert running through 10:45 a.m. CDT. Dallas weather residents faced the added risk of additional rainfall on already saturated ground. Separately, the National Weather Service is tracking a longer-duration flash flood threat across 10 west-central Texas counties — Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Kimble, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Runnels, and San Saba — where localized totals of 4 to 6 inches are possible through 6 p.m. CDT Friday, with excessive runoff the primary danger in that region’s terrain.
Along the Gulf Coast, the National Weather Service in Birmingham issued warnings for northern Bullock County and southern Macon County in southeastern Alabama, where an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain were expected on top of 1 to 2 inches already on the ground. The warning mosaic across coastal Alabama is extensive: Mobile weather area zones from Mobile Inland to Mobile Coastal carry active alerts, as do Baldwin, Escambia, and adjacent Florida Panhandle counties — Santa Rosa and Okaloosa — in both inland and coastal zones.
Mississippi’s southern tier is also under active warnings, with alerts covering Wayne, Perry, Greene, Stone, and George counties.
The full 15-state footprint — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia — reflects a moisture plume that continues to span much of the country from the Gulf to the Pacific Northwest.
Since Wednesday, when 81 warnings were in effect nationally, the event surged 51 percent to Thursday’s peak before edging back Friday. Thursday’s warnings included life-threatening totals across the Ohio Valley; Friday’s pattern suggests that eastern fringe is beginning to relax while south-central states absorb a new round.
The National Weather Service continues to urge: turn around, don’t drown — most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Residents under active warnings should move to higher ground immediately and avoid all flooded roadways.