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Flash Flood Emergency declared in southeast Texas as Edouard remnants drop up to 21 inches; dangerous multi-state heat builds into Labor Day weekend · EM Morning Brief

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  Cedric: Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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  Cedric: The most urgent item this morning sits in southeast Texas.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has a Flash Flood Emergency in effect for Kountze, Village Mills and Honey Island in Hardin and Tyler counties.
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  Cedric: Emergency management reports between 10 and 21 inches of rain already down, with rain falling at 1 to 5 inches an hour and flash flooding underway.
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  Cedric: The Weather Service calls it a particularly dangerous situation and tags the damage threat catastrophic.
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  Cedric: A second life threatening warning covers southeastern Polk and east central San Jacinto counties, where 9 to 13 inches have fallen.
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  Cedric: The rain is the remnant of Tropical Depression Edouard, which came ashore near the Texas and Louisiana line Tuesday afternoon.
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  Cedric: The National Hurricane Center issued its final advisory at 4:00 AM Central and handed the continuing flood threat to the Weather Prediction Center.
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  Cedric: A prolonged and dangerous heat event covers the middle of the country into the Ohio Valley and the Mid-Atlantic.
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  Cedric: Two Extreme Heat Warnings are active.
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  Cedric: The Paducah office warns of heat index values of 103 to 109 across southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky and southeast Missouri through Saturday evening, with overnight lows only in the mid 70s and no real break before the holiday
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  Cedric: weekend.
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  Cedric: A second Extreme Heat Warning covers eastern Iowa and western Illinois.
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  Cedric: Fifty-four Heat Advisories are in effect nationally, including heat index values up to 110 across east Arkansas, north Mississippi, southeast Missouri and west Tennessee, and a Heat Advisory for Puerto Rico.
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  Cedric: Expect cooling center demand and elevated EMS call volume through Labor Day weekend.
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  Cedric: The national wildfire posture holds at Preparedness Level 5.
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  Cedric: The interagency situation report counts 87 uncontained large fires and 163 active incidents totaling about 3.9 million acres, with 21,268 personnel assigned and 17 complex incident management teams committed.
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  Cedric: Two management teams and 212 fireline personnel from Australia and New Zealand are supporting the Northwest and Great Basin, and 240 soldiers from Joint Base Lewis McChord are assigned to the Little Giant fire in Washington.
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  Cedric: On the cyber side, CISA published six industrial control system advisories Tuesday, all covering Rockwell Automation products including the Logix platform, FactoryTalk Activation Manager and RSLinx Classic.
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  Cedric: In an official update published roughly 36 hours ago, CISA also added two actively exploited PaperCut print management vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with a federal remediation deadline of September 14.
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  Cedric: Let's run through the states.
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  Cedric: Alaska: An earthquake swarm continues in the eastern Aleutians southwest of Nikolski.
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  Cedric: The US Geological Survey logged a magnitude 5.3 and a magnitude 5.2 event along with several in the 4.6 to 4.9 range over the past day, at depths between 17 and 38 kilometers.
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  Cedric: No tsunami was generated and no tsunami message was issued.
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  Cedric: The Alaska Volcano Observatory holds Great Sitkin at Watch with an orange aviation color code and Shishaldin at Advisory with yellow, both unchanged.
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  Cedric: California: The Plaskett fire on the Los Padres National Forest in Big Sur grew about 11,000 acres in a single operational period and now covers roughly 28,000 acres at 1 percent containment.
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  Cedric: It is the largest single day growth on the national report.
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  Cedric: An evacuation order remains in place for Monterey County zone MRY-F036 with warnings in two adjacent zones, and Highway 1 stays closed to through traffic through Big Sur.
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  Cedric: Delaware: Severe thunderstorms moved across New Castle and Kent counties Tuesday evening with measured gusts near 80 mph, and a Flash Flood Warning covered northern New Castle County into early this morning after 1 to 2 inches of rain.
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  Cedric: Idaho: A Red Flag Warning is in effect for the Sawtooth Range and northern Sawtooth National Forest through this afternoon.
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  Cedric: Louisiana: Edouard made landfall near Johnson Bayou in Cameron Parish early Tuesday afternoon with 60 mph sustained winds.
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  Cedric: The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness issued a flash flooding advisory Tuesday, and a Flood Watch remains up through this evening for the Lake Charles area including Jasper, Newton, Jefferson and Orange parishes and adjacent Texas counties.
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  Cedric: We have more to cover this morning, but first, a quick word from our sponsors.
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  Cedric: Now, back to this morning’s updates.
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  Cedric: Michigan: The Weather Service in Detroit issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northern Genesee County at 6:04 this morning, with 60 mph gusts and quarter size hail moving through the Flint area.
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  Cedric: Heat Advisories cover southeast and southwest Michigan through this evening.
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  Cedric: Montana: A High Wind Warning is up for the Madison River Valley through tonight.
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  Cedric: A Red Flag Warning covers the eastern Beaverhead National Forest and a Fire Weather Watch covers the Gallatin and Custer national forests and the Billings area through Thursday evening.
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  Cedric: The Sand Creek fire near Wisdom holds at 34,083 acres and 13 percent containment with evacuations still in effect.
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  Cedric: New York: The Weather Service in Buffalo issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning at 7:18 this morning for Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties.
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  Cedric: The Storm Prediction Center carries a Slight Risk across the eastern Great Lakes today, with damaging wind the main threat and a greater tornado risk possible this evening across southern New York.
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  Cedric: Ohio: A Severe Thunderstorm Warning covered Ashtabula County early this morning as storms crossed the lake shore.
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  Cedric: Heat Advisories run across northern and central Ohio through this evening.
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  Cedric: Oregon: The McCully fire in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest grew roughly 1,300 acres and stands near 12,500 acres at 4 percent containment.
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  Cedric: Baker County raised the North Fork John Day Wilderness area west of Baldy Creek to Level 3, go now, added a new Level 2 area north of the 73 Road, and added a Level 1 area further west.
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  Cedric: Air quality alerts cover Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Wasco and Marion counties.
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  Cedric: Pennsylvania: Severe Thunderstorm Warnings covered Erie and Warren counties this morning.
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  Cedric: Tornado warned storms crossed north central Pennsylvania Tuesday afternoon and evening, and a multi state severe thunderstorm watch ran into Wednesday.
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  Cedric: Heat Advisories cover the southeast, the Susquehanna Valley and southwest Pennsylvania through Thursday evening.
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  Cedric: Texas: Beyond the Flash Flood Emergency, Flood Watches cover more than seven million people from Houston and Beaumont north into the Piney Woods and southeast toward Dallas, running through this evening.
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  Cedric: About 70,000 homes and businesses are without power across six counties, most of it from Tuesday's landfall winds, which reached 60 to 90 mph in preliminary reports.
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  Cedric: The Texas Division of Emergency Management has the State Operations Center activated with more than 1,500 state personnel, swift water rescue boats, high water vehicles and rescue aircraft staged.
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  Cedric: Several Houston area school districts are closed today, and the state damage reporting tool is open to residents.
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  Cedric: Utah: The Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued a series of Flash Flood Warnings Tuesday for burn scar areas, including the Cottonwood and Silver King scars in Piute County, where debris flow and highway flooding were reported on the
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  Cedric: City Creek drainage, along with warnings in Washington and Kane counties.
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  Cedric: Washington: The Little Giant fire on the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest grew about 7,700 acres to roughly 171,000 acres at 49 percent containment and is now the largest single wildfire recorded in Chelan County, with 26 structures lost.
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  Cedric: The Chelan County Sheriff reduced evacuation levels across all three affected areas Monday.
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  Cedric: The Sinlahekin fire holds near 166,000 acres at 39 percent containment with 30 structures lost and evacuations in effect, and the Three Queens fire near Snoqualmie Pass is near 9,000 acres at 5 percent with evacuations in effect.
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  Cedric: Air quality alerts cover Chelan, Douglas and Kittitas counties.
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  Cedric: Wyoming: A Fire Weather Watch covers much of the state through Thursday evening, including the Bighorn Basin, the Cody foothills, the Upper Green River Basin, Sweetwater and Natrona counties.
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  Cedric: All other states have no significant updates in the last 24 hours.
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  Cedric: Now to the territories.
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  Cedric: Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands: The Weather Service office in Tiyan has a Special Weather Statement out for a large, disorganized tropical disturbance along the monsoon trough northeast of Saipan, bringing heavy showers, isolated thunderstorms, gusts near 30 mph
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  Cedric: and a localized flooding risk across Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.
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  Cedric: The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is not tracking any system forecast to affect the Marianas.
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  Cedric: Puerto Rico: The Weather Service in San Juan issued a Heat Advisory covering San Juan, Ponce, Mayaguez, the interior, Culebra and Vieques, running through this afternoon.
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  Cedric: The advisory also extends to St.
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  Cedric: Thomas, St.
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  Cedric: John and St.
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  Cedric: Croix.
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  Cedric: All other territories and the District of Columbia have no significant updates in the last 24 hours.
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  Cedric: That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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  Cedric: Stay Safe.