A nine -year -old boy in Kentucky was swept by flooding on Friday, and at least 16 people were killed in a series of dramatic storms that pumped the United States.
High winds and heavy rain, including Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky on Saturday, continued to delay recovery efforts.
The predictor of the National Weather Service said that the “potentially historical” rainfall and a large temperature swing will be expected until Sunday from the United States to the East Coast.
The boy is known to walk to the school bus stop when he overturned on Friday morning. The Frank Port Police Bureau in Frank Port, Kentucky, confirmed that it recovered after about two hours.
Franklin County School Superintendent Mark Kopp said at a press conference, “We were deeply grieved in this terrible tragedy that claimed one of the students.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear called the boy’s death a “unimaginable loss.” He also confirmed the death of another death -adult in Kentucky on Saturday.
“We must understand that all the water is at risk right now. Let’s do everything possible to keep your loved ones safely,” he said.
National Weather Service predicted that severe thunderstorms and flash floods were expected in a wide range of bands in the central United States, which extended to Western Pennsylvania in Arkansas and Louisiana.
As of Saturday afternoon, more than 162,000 people were already in power in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky have already declared an emergency a week.
The predictors said on Saturday storms, “We saw a high number of rainfalls of 10-20 (inches) when all regions were speaking and doing in some regions.”
Even if the rain stops, the swollen river will continue to be in danger, the predictors said. Changes in pressure and strong winds also strengthen the risk of tornado from eastern Texas to West Tennessee.
It was Pull the weather in this area. Dozens of tornades have been reported and hundreds of counties spent several days from Wednesday as a storm warning.
Tennessee died, according to the BBC’s US news partner CBS. In other deaths, a man in Tennessee, his teenage daughter, and a 68 -year -old man in Missouri stopped to help the stranded driver.
The same area was hit by tornado, forest fires and dust storms and killed 40 years old. In March, “staggering” left damage.
