For one, the flood-ravaged region around Ruidoso, New Mexico, again finds itself at risk for slow-moving storms causing rapid water rise.

Gov. Jeff Landry honors Louisiana college student Emma Foltz for evacuating 14 summer campers during the deadly July 4 flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas. July 17, 2025 at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

The system, identified as Invest 93L, originally developed east of Florida before traversing the entire state and ending up over Louisiana and Mississippi.

Today, 17 million are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the Mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley.

The forecast comes on the heels of heavy rain in Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, major and disruptive flooding that forced a state of emergency in New Jersey, and deadly flash floods in Texas that took the lives of at least 135 people, including children at a Christian girls’ camp.

The heaviest rains are expected to instead take aim at the Acadiana area, but flash flooding will be an issue there and in New Orleans and Baton Rouge metros. Here's more.

There have been many flash flooding incidents recently across the U.S., and flooding expert Alex Sosnowski expects that concern to continue in the Midwest and Louisiana with the tropical rainstorm.

One month before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Black residents across southern Louisiana braced for their first tropical disturbance of hurricane season. The storm threatened to bring flash flooding across the coast from Mississippi to the center of Louisiana.