Flooding, Flooding Everywhere

Multiple locations in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic have experienced torrential rainfall during the last couple days, leading to flooding. To find out more about what caused the flooding and forecasts for additional rainfall, read our news story "Flash Flooding Affecting Louisiana to Virginia." Here's a NOAA map of the last three days of rainfall:

Louisiana has been the obvious choice, due to meandering remnants of Tropical Depression #5, but check out this list including storm totals or 24-hour rainfalls elsewhere:

Bunkie, LA: 14.55"
Near Natchez, MS: 10.74"
Westmoreland, TN: 7.98"*
Fayetteville, NC: 6.34"**
Gamaliel, KY: 6.31"
Mclean, VA: 4.54"
College Park, MD: 4.47"

AccuWeather.com's Marc Mancuso shows video of the flooding in Louisiana and Tennessee:

In Louisiana, 6-10 inches of rain fell over the central part of the state yesterday but a wide area of more than 5 inches has painted the state this week:

*Nearby Cookeville, Tennessee received 7.75" of rain yesterday according to the CoCoRaHs gage there. AccuWeather.com Fan Christian Johnson submitted pictures of this flooding:

Here's an estimated precip map from NOAA showing his area:

**Gastonia, North Carolina reported 5.48" yesterday; the nearby city of Charlotte was also inundated with flooding overnight.