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Flooding and Rip Current Concerns from Chantal; Lingering Flood Watches in Central Texas

Chantal is now a Tropical Depression. Flash flood concerns continue across portions of central North Carolina into Monday. Life-threatening surf and rip currents conditions are expected to continue at beaches along the U.S. East Coast from northeastern Florida to the Mid-Atlantic states during the next day or so. Flood Watches and recovery continue across central Texas. Read More >

 Today's Weather Trivia

Today's Date is Sunday July 6, 2025...\n ON... Jul 6, 1893 A violent tornado killed 71 persons on its forty mile track across northwestern Iowa. Forty nine persons were killed around Pomeroy, where eighty percent of the buildings were destroyed, with most leveled to the ground. Photos showed most of the town without a wall or tree left standing. IN 1986...Thunderstorm rains at mid morning, and again during the evening, produced major flash flooding at Leavenworth Kansas. The official rainfall total was 10.37 inches, but unofficial totals exceeded twelve inches.

 

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