Diminished Lee Still Poses Threat As It Marches North | NPR

Parish crews placed sand bags along a flooded street in Lafitte, La.,
on Sunday. Lee dumped more than a foot of rain in parts of
Louisiana and may have spawned tornadoes elsewhere before
weakening to a tropical depression Sunday night.
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While Lee's winds have lost some of their punch, forecasters warn that its slow-moving rain clouds pose a worse flooding threat to inland areas with hills or mountains in the coming days.

Flash flood watches and warnings were in effect across a swath of the Southeast early Monday, stretching from the lower Mississippi Valley, eastward to the Florida Panhandle and the southern Appalachians, according to the Hydrometeorological Predication Center...

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