{"id":423783,"date":"2026-09-02T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423783\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:22:16","slug":"flood-threat-continues-wednesday-across-southeast-texas-as-edouard-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423783\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood threat continues Wednesday across southeast Texas as Edouard weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Edouard made landfall as a tropical storm near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana at 2:25 p.m. on Tuesday September 1st, as a 60-mph storm. The center of circulation will impact parts of southeast Texas Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Edouard is now a tropical depression and will continue to weaken as it continues farther inland.<\/p>\n<p>In LouisianaWednesday a flood threat and wind advisory:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">As the center of circulation moves northwest Wednesday the heaviest rain will fall near it\u2019s center. So far southeast Texas has picked 4 to 12 inches of rain the past 24 hours. A flood watch is in effect through Wednesday evening as the tropical moisture could still lead additional rain bands through Wednesday evening. Those bands can bring a quick 1 to 2\u2033 of rain falling in an hour. <\/p>\n<p>Some areas picked up over 10 inches of rain in the last 24 hoursWind advisory:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Also close to the center of Edouard will be strong winds. A wind advisory is in effect through 1:00 p.m. Wednesday. East, northeasterly winds 20-30 mph with gusts between 35 and 45 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Strongest winds northeast of HoustonWednesday timing and placement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">We could see a redevelopment of storms early Wednesday morning. The best chance for morning rain is across Trinity, Polk and Liberty counties. Northwest Harris County will see some spotty bands along I-69. <\/p>\n<p>We potentially start the day with heavy rain north of Houston (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Wednesday evening is when Houston could get a chance at rain as Edouard continues to fall apart the remaining moisture and energy will push spotty to scattered rain from Huntsville to Pearland from 2 pm to 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered showers and storm chancesScattered rain mainly north of I-10<br \/>Lingering rainExtended Forecast:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Even through Edouard moves out Wednesday, left over tropical moisture will create more afternoon thunderstorms Thursday. In fact, we may see afternoon storms through the beginning of the holiday weekend. <\/p>\n<p>What to expect through Tuesday of next week (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)Anthony&#8217;s Weather Lab<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edouard made landfall as a tropical storm near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana at 2:25 p.m. on Tuesday September 1st,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147087,171,56,58,57,27,7093,12375],"class_list":["post-423783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-edouard","tag-forecast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-texas","tag-tropics","tag-txwx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}