Flash Flood Watch for West Half of West TN

(Friday, October 30, 2009) – GRLevel3 Doppler Radar showing large are of showers and thunderstorms associated with frontal systems affecting our area.  The leading edge of the rain, just after 5 AM, was from roughly Greenfield to Gadsden to Stanton to Germantown.  The cold front across AR will push to the Jackson area by early afternoon.  The flash flood watch has been extended to include another column of counties.  The watch includes the following counties:  WEAKLEY-GIBSON-HAYWOOD-CROCKETT-FAYETTE-LAKE-OBION-DYER-LAUDERDALE-TIPTON-AND SHELBY. It will be in effect through Saturday morning. Rainfall totals in the watch area could easily fall in the range of 2 to 5 inches, perhaps 6 inches in some isolated spots. Most counties in Eastern AR are under a Flash Flood WARNING so West TN residents need to be ready to take action should a warning be issued as well.