12 dead as significant severe weather, flash flooding tear through parts of US

The ruthless, life -threatening weather conditions continued on Saturday in many states for the fourth consecutive day, including the threat of a heavy flood in Memphis, Tennessee and Little Rock, Arkansas and Tornado watches from Texas to Kentucky.

As of Wednesday, at least 12 people have been killed against the backdrop of a hard time, including a 9-year-old boy in Kentucky, who was swept away by water waters while going to a bus stop, and several people killed in southwestern Tennessee after a strong EF-3 tornado torn through the city of Selmer.

The Arkansas Emergency Department has confirmed the first death related to the storm-5-year-old child found at a home in the southwestern Little Rock. The agency did not provide other details about the death of the child, but said it was related to “the ongoing difficult weather in Arkansas”.

In Missouri, a 16-year-old firefighter responding to a reported water rescue, he died in a car crash on Friday in Borfort, about 60 miles west of St. Louis, according to the Beaufort-Leslie and Missourway Patrol Crash report.

The firefighter was identified as Chevy Gall.

“Tonight is the worst nightmare of the fire chief,” the chief of the County of Fire Protection of Beopher-Lieli Terry Fet said in a statement on Friday. “We are broken by the heart by the loss of one of ours.”

Earlier this week, Missouri authorities said another local fireman, 68-year-old Gary Moore, died as he helped a driver of a torn driver on Wednesday. Moore was the head of the Wyle Water Fire County.

In general, the mortal number stands five in Tennessee; three in Missouri; Two in Kentucky; And one in Indiana and Arkansas.

It was expected on Saturday until the last day of a multi -day flood event with a high impact, which caused chaos through parts of the Dolna River Valley and the middle of the Mississippi, which remains at high risk of flooding. ·

As of Sunday, at least 18 river dimensions were in large floods from Arkansas to Indiana. Up to 50 river dimensions are expected to reach a major flood stage in mid -south and the Midwest this week.

As of Friday, the total rainfall has been reported in Eastern Memphis, where more than 14 inches have fallen. More than 12 inches are registered at the Memphis International Airport, with the city recorded its most humid April day on Saturday with 5.47 inches of rain.

As of Saturday night, Memphis, Tennessee, remained under an emergency of flooding, as the last round of the torrential rain continues to blur east in parts of mid -south on Saturday afternoon.

The National Meteorological Service said it was a particularly dangerous situation and a life -threatening flood was expected to be a lightning -threatening flood. The emergency emergency of flooding is the highest level signal that NWS issues for a flood threat.

In Arkansas, in the last few days, the rain has fallen – equal to rain for about three months.

By Saturday evening, an emergency emergency was canceled for floods for the small rock, and the biggest of the heavy rain was there. However, the main flood of lightning continued in the region.

Another emergency of floods in the Northeast Arkansas, including the cities of the village of Cherokee and Hardy, was also canceled. Extremely on Saturday, emergency management staff transferred to the National Meteorological Service that numerous water rescuers continue in the area, which includes parts of Lawrence and sharp cities.

According to civil servants for emergency management, preliminary damage reports in Arkansas include floods on road sails, removed trees and power lines, rescue of water and damage from possibly tornado near the city of Win. The National Meteorological Service has not yet confirmed the tornado.

Although the threat to heavy storms will gradually reduce over the weekend, as the stationary front is slowly pressing east, the more unbearable time will continue to explode in areas that have already been hit by tornado and life-threatening floods.

In addition to flood threats, Saturday nights caused the risk of severe thunderstorms and tornado. There were tornado watches, published in seven states – from Texas to Kentucky, with cities such as Memphis, Little Rock, Nashville and Houston on guard.

As of Sunday, there were 91 reported tornado in at least 10 states from Kansas to Ohio.

The worst of the severe thunderstorms, a tornado, the threat of flash floods was expected in the evening as a line of severe thunderstorms with torrential rain continues to blur on parts south.

The biggest threat of tornado was in parts of Western Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, including the Memphis subway region. Eastern Texas in Western Tennessee was also expected to have strong tornado with a very large hail and destructive gusts of wind.

The threat of heavy weather and excessive rainfall will be on Sunday as this system begins to slide east. However, parts of the Tennessee Valley and the Ohio River could see another 3 to 6 inches before this front border completely moved from the region to Monday.

Parts of the southeastern part were at a slight risk (level 2 of 5) for heavy weather where the storms were expected to generate harmful winds, hail and isolated tornado.

With this, thunderstorms that generate heavy rainfall (at speeds that potentially reach 2 to 3 inches per hour) can cause floods of lightning in prone areas. A good part of Georgia and Alabama, as well as parts of Florida Panhandell, southern Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana were at a slight risk of flooding.

-BK News’ Shawnie Caslin Martucci has contributed to this report.