Flash flooding impacts parts of southeast Texas
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Tropical Storm Edouard was expected to strengthen significantly and possibly reach hurricane force Tuesday as it moved toward the Gulf Coast.
The National Weather Service issued a life-threatening flash flood emergency for Hardin and Tyler counties in southeast Texas Wednesday morning. Between 10 and 21 inches of rain have fallen, and the expected rainfall rate was between 1 to 5 inches per hour. "Seek higher ground now!" a NWS graphic states.
The now-tropical depression is inundating parts of eastern Texas as it tracks sluggishly inland.
Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Tuesday afternoon near the Texas-Louisiana border.
Terrified Texas drivers were stuck for hours on Port Arthur's famously-steep Rainbow Bridge on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard rolled in.
Edouard weakens to a depression, sparing Houston heavy rain, but significant flash flooding risks persist north and northeast in counties like Polk and Liberty.