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Major Flood Threat Owing to Ida

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Last update: November 8, 2009 - 2:25 PM

Heavy rain will break out along the central Gulf coast on Sunday night and Monday. From here, it will spread eastward and northward ahead of Ida and will reach the Georgia and much of the Carolinas by later Tuesday. Stream and urban flooding will be likely within this corridor. More serious impact will be possible.

Much of the belt spanning such cities as New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and Atlanta, Ga., will see rainfall of 2-4 inches through Tuesday. Again, urban and stream flooding will be common in areas having as much rain. Travel will be slowed and locally disrupted by storm runoff.

A narrower core having rainfall to 6 inches is forecast for southern Louisiana to southern Alabama. Flood impact here could be serious on from city streets to streams and even rivers.

Importantly, this rash of heavy rain will unfold to the south and east -- and thus down stream -- of the site of ongoing major flooding in northern Louisiana and southernmost Arkansas. Good news is that an already serious situation will not be made any worse.

Story By AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews.

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