Moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Polo is spreading across the southern and central Plains, and the National Weather Service has posted Flood Watches across southern Colorado, the Texas Panhandle, northwest Texas and northern Kansas.
Forecasters in Amarillo say parts of the Panhandles could see a rain event of historic proportions.
Road-trippers on I-25, I-40, I-27 and I-70 this week should build in extra time and keep an eye on local warnings.
Texas Panhandle: A Potentially Historic Soaking
The NWS office in Amarillo has a watch in effect from Tuesday morning, September 29, through Wednesday afternoon for Amarillo, Canyon, Dumas, Borger, Dalhart, Hereford and Palo Duro Canyon State Park, plus Cimarron and Texas counties in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Forecasters wrote that “this has the potential to be a high end to even historic rain event” for portions of the region, with the greatest flash flood risk in the western Panhandles.
Just south, the Lubbock office covers Parmer, Castro, Swisher, Bailey, Lamb and Cochran counties over the same window. Storms may repeatedly move over the same areas, many of which already received several inches of rain last week…