{"id":25125,"date":"2026-09-02T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25125"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:45:03","slug":"tropical-depression-edouard-drops-heavy-rain-on-southeast-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25125","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Depression Edouard Drops Heavy Rain on Southeast Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Depression Edouard was dropping heavy rain on parts of southeast Texas on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Edouard was located at latitude 30.8\u00b0N and longitude 95.0\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Lufkin, Texas.\u00a0 Edouard was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Depression Edouard was dropping heavy rain on parts of southeast Texas on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 A radar image from the U.S. National Weather Service Office in Houston showed that the circulation around Edouard was still very well organized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Houstonradar090226.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25126\" src=\"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Houstonradar090226-300x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Houstonradar090226-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Houstonradar090226-624x532.png 624w, https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Houstonradar090226.png 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #993300;\">Flash Flood Warnings are in effect for East Central San Jacinto County, Southeastern Polk County, and Northeastern Liberty County.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A well defined center of circulation was evident in Tropical Depression Edouard.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Edouard&#8217;s circulation.\u00a0 The heaviest rain was falling in a band that was south of the center of Tropical Depression Edouard.\u00a0 Moderate to heavy rain falling near the center of Edouard&#8217;s circulation.\u00a0 Moderate to heavy rain was also falling south and east of the center of Tropical Depression Edouard.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Depression Edouard will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the Southeast U.S.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Edouard slowly toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Depression Edouard will continue to move farther inland over southeast Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Edouard will continue to drop heavy rain to parts of southeast Texas.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>A Flood Watch is in effect for parts of southeast Texas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Depression Edouard was dropping heavy rain on parts of southeast Texas on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Edouard was located at latitude 30.8\u00b0N and longitude 95.0\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Lufkin, Texas.\u00a0 Edouard was moving toward the north-northwest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[446,447,4220,4223,4221,1756,4222,112,4219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25127,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions\/25127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}