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Flooding concerns are on the top of just about everyone's mind in East Texas the past couple of days. The threat of flash flooding still exists through at least Friday evening. With all the rain we've received the past few days, several cities have had to issue some sort of evacuation orders or disaster declarations and such. The City Of Tyler is the last city to issue such notice.

It just keeps coming. Yesterday in East Texas, we set rainfall records with upwards of four inches of rain falling in the Tyler-Longview area.  And there's no sign of it slowing down anytime soon.  Despite a brief respite this morning, another round of storms should be hitting the area by this afternoon and continuing well into the work week...

I'm not saying that this cool looking vortex has taken down a boat yet, but according to experts it very well could if it wanted to.

May was a tough month for many East Texans because Mother Nature released her fury on towns such as Van, Henderson, Jacksonville and others.

The National Weather Service says locally heavy rainfall is expected over much of the state today and tonight with widespread rain resulting in one to near three inches of rainfall. An isolated thunderstorm is also possible. Our weather partners at KLTV Channel 7 in Tyler say the rainfall will stay throughout the day, and to expect lower temperatures later in the week...