Tropical disturbance to bring heavy rain, flash flooding
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The National Weather Service urged people to avoid travel if a flash flood warning was in place for their area.
Early on Thursday morning the National Weather Service's Lake Charles office announced that it would be expanding the flash flood warning that previously went as far west as Vermillion Parish to include Calcasieu, Cameron, Allen, Jefferson Davis and Beauregard parishes. The watch is in effect from 7 a.m. on Thursday to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
The record rainfall has led to flash flooding in some areas, and the Kansas City Fire Department reported that it has performed 23 water rescues that began shortly after rainfall started Wednesday evening through 8 a.m. Thursday, according to spokesperson Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The atmosphere over West Virginia could produce heavy storms any afternoon over the next several days, according to the National Weather Service.
WHAT: Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
Record-setting rains caused Kansas City area waterways to rise overnight. Some increased more than 21 feet. Creeks and rivers are still high in the metro after the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings around 3 a.
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