Widespread light to moderate rain showers will persist across much of southern Illinois and southeast Missouri through 5 am. The activity will be more scattered over much of western Kentucky...especially along and east of the pennyrile Parkway and also across most of southwest Indiana. Hourly rainfall will be around a tenth of an inch or less...with some locally higher amounts.
Forecast for Scott
Updated: 3:37 am CDT on March 22, 2010
Today
Cloudy. Rain likely in the morning...then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
The Flood Warning continues for the Mississippi River at Thebes. * At 8:00 PM Sunday the stage was 35.3 feet. * Flood stage is 33.0 feet. * Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. * Forecast... the river will continue to fall to a stage of 34.8 feet by Tuesday morning. * Impact... at 34.0 feet... the town of Thebes begins to flood.
858 PM CDT sun Mar 21 2010
The Flood Warning continues for the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau. * At 8:00 PM Sunday the stage was 35.8 feet. * Flood stage is 32.0 feet. * Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. * Forecast... the river will continue to fall to a stage of 35.0 feet by Tuesday morning. * Impact... at 36.0 feet... the flood gate on Themis street closes.