Heavy rain continues to drench the Deep South to Tennessee Valley as a potent cold front moves east, taking aim at the East Coast for the weekend. One to three inches will soak eastern Louisiana to western Ohio overnight.

Numerous Flash Flood Warnings are in effect from east Texas to northern Illinois and southern Iowa, including Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis, and Chicago.

Rainfall totals have easily exceeded 5 inches since early Thursday in many of the locations currently seeing flash flooding. A few of the highest rainfall totals since midnight Thursday include 6.80 inches in Belmont, La., 6.42 inches in Shreveport, La., 5.69 inches in Monticello, Ark., 6.38 inches in Jacksonville, Ark., and 3.48 inches in Memphis.

These storms and downpours are stretching along an elongated cold front from eastern Louisiana to the Great Lakes. The southern end of the system, energized by a strong jet stream above and plenty of Gulf of Mexico looping into the system from the south, is producing the pulses of downpours.

The cold front will slowly pull into the Northeast with downpours still soaking the Southeast through midday Saturday. The storm will be a distant memory by Sunday as the moisture moves into the Atlantic.

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