12 dead as a significant severe climate, sudden floods are torn through parts of us

The implacable and potentially mortal climatic conditions continued until Sunday in multiple states, including the threat of severe floods in Memphis, Tennessee and Little Rock, Arkansas and Tornado Watches in Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia.

Since Wednesday, at least 12 people have died in the middle of the outbreak of the severe weather, including a 9-year-old boy in Kentucky, who was swept through the waters of the floods while walking towards a bus stop, and several people killed in southwest Tennessee after a strong EF-3 tornado crossed the city of Selmer.

Arkansas emergency management division confirmed The first death related to the state storm, a 5 -year -old boy who is in a house in the southwest of Little Rock. The agency did not provide any other detail of the child’s death, but said it was related “to the severe climate in progress in Arkansas.”

In Missouri, a 16-year-old firefighter who responded to a rescue of water reported, died in a vehicle accident on Friday in Beaufort, about 60 miles west of St. Louis, according to the Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District and a report of the Missouri state road patrol.

The firefighter was identified as Chevy Gall.

“Tonight is the worst nightmare of a fire chief,” said the head of the Beaufort-Leslie fire protection district on Friday in a statement on Friday. “We are disconsolate by the loss of one of ours.”

Earlier this week, the Missouri authorities said that another local fire chief, Garry Moore, 68, died while helping a driver stranded on Wednesday. Moore was the head of the Whitewater fire protection district.

In general, the death toll is found in five in Tennessee; three in Missouri; Two in Kentucky; and one in Indiana and Arkansas.

On Saturday it was expected until the last day of a high-impact flood event of several days that has wreaked havoc in parts of the low and average river valley of the In-Mississippi, which remains under a high risk of floods. ·

Until Sunday, at least 18 river indicators were on large floods from Arkansas to Indiana. It is expected that up to 50 river indicators will reach a large stage of flood in the southern and west medium this week.

The flood alerts on Sunday morning extended from Louisiana to west of Pennsylvania, including the main cities such as Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Birmingham, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

It is forecast that the heavy rain would move east until Sunday, with the greatest threat to sudden floods in Alabama and Georgia, including Atlanta and Birmingham. At the local level, more than 5 inches of rain is possible in the south until Monday.

Since Friday, the highest rain of East Memphis was reported, where more than 14 inches of rain fell. At the Memphis International Airport, more than 12 inches of rain were recorded, and the city registered its most wet April on Saturday with 5.47 inches of rain.

Until Saturday night, Memphis, Tennessee, remained under a sudden flood emergency as the last round rainfall continues to sweep east through parts of the middle Saturday afternoon.

The National Meteorological Service said it was a particularly dangerous situation and that sudden floods were expected that threaten life. An sudden flood emergency is the highest level alert that the NWS issues a threat of sudden flood.

In Arkansas in recent days, until a rainfoot it has fallen, equal to approximately three months of rain.

For Saturday night, a sudden flood emergency was canceled previously issued for the Little Rock area and the worst of heavy rains was there. However, the main sudden floods continued in the region.

Another sudden flood emergency in the Northeast of Arkansas, including the cities of Cherokee Village and Hardy, was also canceled. The earliest Saturday, emergency management officials have transmitted to the National Meteorological Service that multiple water bailouts were ongoing in the area, which includes Lawrence parts and acute counties.

According to state emergency management officials, preliminary damage reports in Arkansas included floods on roads, fallen trees and electric lines, water rescue and damage to a possible tornado near the city of Wynne. The National Meteorological Service has not yet confirmed the tornado.

Although the threat to severe storms will gradually decrease over the weekend as the stationary front slowly pushes east, the most restless climate will continue to explode over the areas already beaten by tornadoes and floods that threaten life.

Until Sunday, there were 91 tornadoes reported in at least 10 states from Kansas to Ohio.

On Sunday morning he brought tornado warnings for areas such as Birmingham and Atlanta. Severe electric storms could produce harmful tornadoes and winds in a straight line today from southern Louisiana to Alabama and Georgia.

On Monday, the severe risk moves north of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. The harmful winds will be the greatest threat, but an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out.

The threat to severe climate and excessive rain will relieve Sunday as this system begins to slide to the east. However, parts of the Tennessee and Ohio River Valley could see another 3 to 6 inches before this frontal limit moves completely out of the region on Monday.

Parts of the southeast were under a small risk (level 2 of 5) for a severe climate, where storms were expected to generate harmful winds, hail and isolated tornadoes.

With that, thunderstorms that generate heavy rains (with rates potentially reaching 2 to 3 inches per hour) could cause sudden floods in prone areas. A good part of Georgia and Alabama, as well as parts of Panhandle in Florida, southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana, were under a slight risk of floods.

-ABC News’ Shawnie Caslin Martucci contributed to this report.