More intense storms saturate the already wet earth, affecting areas of Texas where last week's deluges claimed hundreds of lives.
Over 13 million people are under flood watches from Monday through Tuesday in an area that stretches from Central Texas to the Florida Panhandle, including the soggy areas immediately north of Houston.
Flash floods could occur throughout the South early this week. Flooding may occur in major cities like Tallahassee, Mobile, Shreveport, and New Orleans.
"Parts of the Gulf Coast states, including central and eastern Texas, are predicted to see severe thunderstorms today." The Storm Prediction Center alerts people to the possibility of corridors with strong wind gusts, enormous hail, and a few tornadoes.
Over the past week, the South has been hammered by multiple rounds of rain. On Sunday, strong storms that brought some tennis ball-sized hail and caused the National Weather Service to issue tornado watches and flash flood warnings passed across Texas and into Louisiana.
Authorities in Tallahassee are cautioning locals to "stay weather aware in the coming days." The capital of Florida, the city, is still getting over the fatal storms that passed through on Friday and left behind three tornadoes and significant property damage.
Strong gusts, hail as large as 4 inches in diameter, and a few tornadoes are predicted for Monday as storms move toward the Gulf Coast and another wall of severe weather starts to build across eastern Texas and Louisiana.
From southeast Louisiana to western Florida, the heaviest rain is expected. In addition to Sunday's storms, the area may have 3-inch rainfall rates each hour, with a potential total of 8 inches.
Over the past two weeks, the Southeast has seen an unrelenting assault of strong storms that have battered the area with devastating winds, hail, tornadoes, and flooding.
The rainfall more than a week ago caused river gauges in eastern Texas and Louisiana to remain high, notably the Liberty River, which is still in major flood stage north of Houston. In both states, at least seven additional rivers are at a moderate flood stage.
The threat moves even further to the southeast on Tuesday, with the most of the storms expected to hit the Florida Panhandle and the Carolinas.
Texas experiences severe weather.
Texas has been hit by a string of severe weather events since early April, with the current storms being the worst of them.
Over the past month, numerous tornadoes have struck locations ranging from the Texas Panhandle to the Gulf Coast, leaving behind demolished houses and commercial buildings in their wake. In addition, certain parts of the state have seen softball-sized hail, and East Texas has received months' worth of rain, which has caused rivers to swell to levels not seen since Hurricane Harvey's destructive floods in 2017.
Over 200 individuals needed to be rescued from houses and cars in Harris County, Texas, last weekend due to heavy rains that caused rivers to overflow and roadways to submerge. More than 150 pets were saved during the storms, and many individuals had to leave stranded cattle, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo .
A few days prior, there had been almost two months' worth of rain in some areas north of Houston, prompting evacuations and water rescues.
The area is particularly vulnerable to flash floods as a result of the consecutive rounds of rain because the soils cannot absorb much more water and the rivers are already bloated.
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