00:00Up to 14 inches of rain could trigger dangerous flash flooding across parts of the central U.S. this week,
00:05and Hurricane Simon is partly to blame.
00:07Simon's lingering off Mexico's Pacific coast, where the biggest threats are flooding rain, damaging winds, and storm surge.
00:12But some of that tropical moisture is being pulled into the U.S., combining with moisture from the Gulf to
00:17fuel repeated rounds of heavy rain.
00:19From Tuesday night through Thursday night, we're forecasting 2 to 4 inches of rain from west Texas into central Illinois.
00:24But the biggest flooding risk stretches from Lubbock through Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Springfield, Missouri.
00:28Those areas could see 4 to 8 inches, with even some localized totals of 14 inches of rain.
00:33And some storms could dump 1 to 3 inches of rain per hour.
00:37That means flash flooding and dangerous travel.
00:39But there's a severe weather threat, too, with damaging winds as the biggest concern.
00:42Tuesday, the focus is Kansas City to Wichita.
00:45Wednesday, the threat shrinks a bit from west Texas through Oklahoma City and up to Wichita.
00:49Now, Simon could linger near Mexico's coast through late week before eventually losing wind intensity.
00:53And its exact track will determine just how much additional tropical moisture reaches the U.S.
00:58EUROPAR, which is a committee as the Green
