Beryl Inland spreading heavy rains East Texas to the Mississippi & Ohio Valley, Flooding risks rise

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Hurricane Beryl has made its 4th and final landfall along the Texas Coast this morning near Bay City, Texas. Top winds before landfall reached 80 mph. Beryl made 4 landfalls in it's history and it is likely that the former category 5 hurricane will likely see the name retired. The next issue with Beryl will be heavy rain. Flood Watches are posted from East Texas and Eastern Oklahoma northeastward into Northern Arkansas, Southern Missouri, and Southern Illinois.

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Beryl will weaken to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression/remnant low. Normally the heaviest rain from an inland tropical system will fall to the northwest of the track of the low center. The hurricane model forecasts are all in relatively tight agreement and a future track northeastward through the Middle Mississippi, Upper Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes over the next 4 days. Models are also in agreement with this idea.

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As far as rainfall amounts are concerned we see that the Weather Prediction Center is forecasting areas of 4 to 6 inch rainfalls in Southeast and East Texas into Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. A large and of 2 to 4 inches extends into Southern Illinois, Central Indiana and Northwest Ohio.

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Remnant tropical storms that track west of the Appalachian Mountains usually do not bring heavy rain to the East Coast except for perhaps Northern New York and parts of Northern New England. Ultimately that will depend on the low track once it reachers Southern Canada. We will be monitoring the progress of the remnants of Beryl in the coming days.