Potentially life-threatening flooding setup puts millions on alert from Plains to Deep South

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Rounds of torrential rainfall and thunderstorms from the Plains to the Deep South are starring to a perchance unsafe setup that could nutrient life-threatening flash flooding connected Thursday.

It’s an progressive upwind signifier that the FOX Forecast Center said would stay successful spot crossed the portion done the remainder of the workweek and into the Labor Day vacation weekend.

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Flooding rainfall and thunderstorms person already been pushing done communities from the cardinal Plains to the Deep South aboriginal Thursday morning, with Flash Flood Warnings issued successful parts of Kansas.

According to section tempest reports received by the National Weather Service, galore damaging upwind gusts were reported successful areas specified arsenic Johnson City, Kendall and Moscow successful Kansas connected Wednesday day and evening, and flood reports were received successful Colby, Kansas, aboriginal Thursday morning.

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This graphic shows the flash flood menace connected Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025.
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On Thursday, the FOX Forecast Center said the unsafe enactment volition proceed to propulsion done areas of the cardinal Plains, Ozarks and Deep South, which is pushing the flash flood menace portion to the southbound and east.

The highest flood menace connected Thursday spans from parts of southeastern Kansas to areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

As a result, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) placed the portion successful a Level 2 retired of 4 flash flood menace passim the day.

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The FOX Forecast Center said that with abundant instability successful the atmosphere, aggravated thunderstorms with rainfall rates of up to a staggering 3 inches per hr are possible, particularly on and adjacent a lukewarm beforehand that’s draped crossed the region.

Cities facing the highest flash flood menace connected Thursday see Tulsa successful Oklahoma, Little Rock successful Arkansas and Jackson successful Mississippi.

Flood Watches stay posted successful parts of south-central Kansas, bluish Oklahoma, southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas.

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) besides placed parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana successful a Level 1 retired of 5 terrible upwind menace connected Thursday.

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By Friday and into the Labor Day vacation weekend, a frontal bound is expected to agelong from the Front Range successful Colorado to Florida, with waves of debased unit riding on it, sparking galore showers and thunderstorms.

And with plentifulness of atmospheric moisture successful place, a localized flood menace volition beryllium crossed overmuch of the South.

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