Gulf, Rain and floods
Digest more
At 3:45 a.m. on Thursday, the NWS Blacksburg VA issued a flood watch valid from 2 p.m. until Friday midnight. The watch is for Ashe, Alleghany, Surry, Stokes, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin counties.
The area of low pressure in the Gulf may not become a tropical depression after all. The National Hurricane Center on Thursday lowered the chances of Invest 93L becoming a depression from 40 percent to 30 percent as it tracked westward over the northern Gulf toward Louisiana.
Its chances for tropical development are less, but rainfall flooding is a threat, regardless, in the lower Mississippi Valley. Here's our latest forecast.
EDT on Wednesday, the National Weather Service issued a flood advisory in effect until 9 p.m. EDT for Genesee and Saginaw counties.
As the water rises, so does the Kerr County community, especially one man who reunited a brother and sister, swept away in the flood.