those ring bands forming, which if we hadn t seen in a while because there had been so much dry air on the north side of the system most of the energy and rain was just south of that out in the gulf now we re starting to see the rain bands forming here. now the good news, if there s good news at all about this storm, which is not good news for most people. but for new orleans, there is some good news in terms off rainfall the bulk of that heaviest rain when you re talking upwards of 25 inches will be west of new orleans. the problem is the not so good news is been tween northerly jz atween new orleans to baton rouge, these areas are going to be dealing with the worst rain and worst river flooding here and likely flash flooding new orleans could get flash flooding that is possible for streets and highways but in terms of the inundation
we can start to see those rain bands forming, which we haven t seen in a while there there s been dry air shutting it down. most of the energy and most of the rain was just south of that out in the gulf. but now we re starting to see some of those rain bands forming here the good news, if there s good news at all about this storm, which is not good news for most people in central louisiana into mississippi, but for new orleans, there is good news in terms of rainfall. the bulk of that heaviest rain talking upwards of 25 inches will be west of new orleans. the problem is places like in between new orleans all the way to baton rouge and southwestern mississippi in places like natchez. these areas will be dealing with the worst rain and also the worst river flooding here. likely flash flooding. new orleans could get flash flooding, that is possible for streets and highways but in terms of the indunn
i can actually walk faster than this storm is moving and that is very dangerous. there s nothing more dangerous or scary than a slow-moving, stalled-out tropical cyclone. you get such prolific rainfall rates in these rain bands. you can get 2 to 4 inches per hour easily. you can get tornado threats as well. the winds are gusting. downing trees already weakened from that hurricane. the floodwaters and the rising water table are weakening structures. so those trees are falling. there s nothing more dang russian for a situation like this. as these rivers begin to crest, it s going to create a more catastrophic situation from a different type of flooding and that s a slow-moving natural disaster portion of this storm. reed timer, appreciate you joining us as always, thank you. cnn s continuing coverage of tropical storm florence continues. we will be broadcasting live from myrtle beach, from north carolina, after this short break.
this lane of i-40. they say they have never seen anything like this in the past and they ve learned a lot from the storm in terms of the impacts, the rainfall. we ve already had a few feet of rain. it looks like 1 to 2 feet additionally. and the meteorologists have done an incredible job forecasting the impacts of this storm and the different flash flood impacts or flash flooding, river flooding and the storm surge inundation. all of those combined has created a very complicated flood scenario here. there are several flash flood emergencies that have been issued. it looks like there s new rain bands forming as well. there s one to the north here that has shut down i-40. there s been a few tornado warnings. it looks like the flooding situation of this storm is just getting started. and you talk about those bands that have been added. i mean, just give us a sense. with this storm sitting now and essentially sitting still, barely moving as we know, what is that doing in terms of allowin