"Red Sky...Take Warning"....these shots on Sunday afternoon looking west, in Hopkins County, were
the forewarning of mass flooding in East Texas, due to overnight rains.

 

 

Flash Flooding Predicted for All of
East Texas As Week Begins

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

The National Weather Service in Ft. Worth has issued a flood warning for the South Sulphur River, near Cooper. The flood stage for the river at the Cooper location is 16 feet and on Monday morning, following a night of more rainfall, the river was at 17.8 feet. It was expected to crest sometime Monday afternoon at 18 feet or more.

Additionally, a warning was issued for Talco, where the South Sulphur was expected to crest below that location at 26.5 feet. Flood stage for the location is 20.0 feet and it was at 23.5 Feet on Monday morning. Crest was predicted for Wednesday morning.

The South Sulphur was also to crest on Monday afternoon at 29.5 feet in Naples, Texas, where flood stage is listed at 22.0 feet.

Meanwhile, the Sabine River at Greenville was expected to rise to over 17 feet, with flood stage at 14 feet. On Monday morning, the river was at 16.32 feet at that location.

 

|Flood waters on this Northeast Texas stream, last week, had swollen it beyond its banks.

 

 

The Shreveport Weather Service has issued a flood warning for those people living along the Red River, near Dekalb, Texas, where river was expected to crest at 24.9 feet.

And, the Trinity River along a line from McKinney and Blue Ridge was expected to flood from its banks, as waters traveled south, cresting 41 feet, near Long Lake, in Anderson County. The flooding was expected to affect ranches along the river in Anderson, Leon, and Freestone Counties, and the Coffield Unit of the Texas Prison System.

Then, to our east, the Shreveport Weather Bureau had issued flood warnings from Marion County and the city of Jefferson, where the Little Cypress Bayou was expected to be over 14 feet, and out of its banks.

The cities of Marlin, Palestine, Mexia, Groesbeck, and Hearne, were all watching creeks that emptied into the Trinity River, that were already out of their banks in those areas.

Many areas of Hopkins County have received as much as 18-20 inches of rainfall in the past month, with continued rains predicted for all day Monday. And, one resident from a rural area south of Sulphur Springs, near Reilly Springs, reported emptying 2.5 inches of rain from her rain gauge, on Monday morning.

 

Flooding has been a problem throughout East and Northeast Texas for the past month.