Residential streets are flooded by the rising Licking River, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Falmouth, Ky. (AP Picture/Carolyn Kaster)
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Extreme storms continued to pound elements of the South and Midwest on Sunday, as a punishing and slow-moving storm system unleashed life-threatening flash floods and highly effective tornadoes from Mississippi to Kentucky.
On Sunday, areas that had been battered by excessive winds and washed out by heavy rains since midweek noticed further inclement climate from the relentless storm system that is precipitated highway closures, widespread energy outages and a few voluntary evacuations.
Not less than 18 folks in a number of states have died from weather-related causes since Wednesday, the Related Press reported.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear warned residents Sunday morning that the state was in for an additional day or extra of unhealthy climate.
“Please, everyone watch out,” he stated. “We have tragically misplaced two people, two Kentuckians, two kids of God already, and we do not wish to lose any extra.”
A type of fatalities was 9-year-old Gabriel Andrews, who was swept away by floodwaters as he walked to his college bus cease in Frankfort Friday morning, WLKY reported.
The Tennessee Division of Well being confirmed that 10 folks had died in storms in that state. One of many fatalities was a Carroll County Electrical Division lineman who died whereas working, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Half of the deaths in Tennessee occurred in McNairy County. The McNairy County Emergency Administration Company said in a social media post that an EF3 twister within the southwestern Tennessee county on Thursday broken 332 buildings, destroying 108 of them.
Center & West Tennesseans face an extended highway to restoration amid continued extreme climate, & there’s nice hope in seeing how communities are coming collectively to serve their neighbors on this time of want. pic.twitter.com/9J14n8806B
— Gov. Invoice Lee (@GovBillLee) April 4, 2025
Based on the Nationwide Climate Service, elements of Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee had received greater than a foot of rain, whereas areas of Illinois, Mississippi and Missouri noticed greater than 10 inches.
Flash flood warnings had been in impact Sunday morning for parts of western Kentucky, Center Tennessee and central Alabama.
Tornadoes had additionally been reported in a number of states, and on Sunday morning twister warnings had been in impact for elements of Alabama and Mississippi.
Greater than 54,000 clients in Arkansas had no energy early Sunday afternoon, whereas 1000’s had been additionally at nighttime in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas, in line with the web site PowerOutage.us.
The flight monitoring web site FlightAware reported that 103 flights out and in of the U.S. had been canceled on Sunday and a couple of,892 had been delayed.
Structural injury is seen at Christ Neighborhood Church after a twister struck on April 3, 2025, in Paducah, Kentucky.
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In Tennessee, Montgomery and Obion counties issued voluntary evacuation orders Saturday for areas that had been liable to flooding. In Kentucky, Beshear asked residents of Frankfort, to preserve water over the weekend.
The NWS said in a Sunday forecast that the storm system — together with the threats of heavy rainfall and flash flooding — will transfer east into the Southeastern U.S. all through the day.
But forecasters additionally warned that flooding could continue for a number of days within the affected areas even after the heavy rains have dissipated.
