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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 >

Overview

A cold airmass in place combined with an anomalous low pressure system to produce an early season freezing rain event across central Kentucky and southern Indiana.  Many locations received between a tenth and a quarter of an inch of ice accumulating on trees/shrubs and other elevated surfaces.  Warm ground temperatures kept most roads ice free, though some bridges had slick spots.  

The ice on the trees, many of which still had leaves that helped to weigh them down, caused several limbs/branches to snap and some trees to fall.  There were many reports of power flashes overnight as branches hit transformers.  At the peak of the event, over 100,000 customers were without power in the region.

29 Years Between November Freezing Rain Events

 

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A white forest in Nelson County, KY (photo by Jaymesha Dawson)
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