Concerns about widespread flooding across the US
There have been many flash flood incidents across the United States recently, and flood expert Alex Sosnovsky hopes that tropical storms will continue that concern in the Midwest and Louisiana.
- The jet stream bulge, which develops as a high-pressure build, could create a sustained heat dome that remains in August.
- Thunderstorms could bring a terrible, luxurious bathhouse from southern Nebraska to Canada, with gusts of winds reaching 85 mph.
Coupled with a relentless fever, a seizure of bad weather could provide Americans with a week of turbulent and deadly weather, predictors say.
Multiple rounds of thunderstorm pose a risk of flash floods through the Midwest and east around the “heat dome,” which could bring triple-digit temperatures to parts of multiple states, Accuweather warned.
More than 50 million Americans from Texas to Missouri had already received an extreme heat warning or recommendation from the National Weather Service on July 20th. Night thunderstorms can bring ha rain from southern Nebraska to Canada, with gusts of winds that can reach 85 mph.
The severe weather threat cleaned the Midwest and East on July 21, with Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia all facing flash floods and gusts of wind. Accuweather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said much of the area has been hampered by severe thunderstorms recently and cannot absorb another round.
“We are extremely concerned about the risk of life-threatening flash flood risk in the zones from southern Illinois and Indiana to central and eastern Kentucky, central and southwest Virginia,” Sosnowski said.
According to Chad Merrill, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather, the jet stream bulge, which develops as a high-pressure build, could create a sustained heat dome that will remain in good condition in August. Kansas City, Missouri, has not reached 100 degrees in two years, but could hit numbers multiple times this week, he said. Dallas was able to see 100 degrees for the first time in 2025.
“This has the long-term heatwave appearance with limited rainfall,” Merrill said. “Drought will expand the Central Plains by mid-August and worsen in Kansas and Nebraska, where there are already pockets of moderate to extreme drought.”
The number of people believed to be missing in the catastrophic floods in Kerr County, Texas, was revised from 97 to three over the weekend of July 4th, officials announced on July 19th. The city of Carrville, Texas, said the Carr County Flood Disaster Joint Information Center was “first reported that state and locally removed individuals are being safely reported.
On July 15, Gov. Greg Abbott said 97 people were still listed as missing in the massive Kerrville area, which fell from more than 160 people about a week ago. As of July 17, Abbott said the death toll was 135 statewide, with 116 people from Kerr County dead in the floods. Click here for details.
Contributed by: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy
