Flash flooding a possibility Friday afternoon with stubborn, slow-moving storms in the Houston area

In brief: We are pushing out a Stage 1 flood alert for today based on developments since this morning. Locally heavy downpours will almost certainly cause some street flooding around the area, primarily of the nuisance variety, so use caution the rest of the day if out and about.

We’re going to update things today, as it appears we’ve got some sluggish movers out there. We’ve already seen a couple flood advisories this morning, and some chunks of the area have received 1 to 4 inches since Tuesday.

Rainfall since midday Tuesday. (NOAA MRMS)

As such, we’re going to fire up the flood scale for Stage 1 today. I would bank on at least a few areas seeing flooded streets today that may inconvenience travel as the afternoon wears on. So, use caution out there today, particularly in areas of persistent downpours. Off and on rain and thunder is likely to persist and maneuver around the area through early evening before hugging the coast at times again overnight, possibly spreading inland a bit again as well.

Stage 1 in place for the rest of today.

So use caution out and about, and we’ll let you know if things should escalate further, though we don’t believe that to be so today. Our next update will be planned for Saturday morning unless the situation warrants otherwise.