12 dead as a significant violent time, sudden floods tore in certain parts of us

The relentless and deadly weather conditions continued in several states on Saturday for the fourth consecutive day, including the threat of serious floods in Memphis, Tennessee and Little Rock, Arkansas and Tornado Watches from Texas to Kentucky.

Since Wednesday, at least 12 people have died in the midst of violent time triggering, including a 9-year-old boy in Kentucky, who was swept away by flood waters while he was heading for a bus stop, and several people killed in the southwest of Tennessee after a strong EF-3 tornado torn the city of Selmer.

Arkansas emergency management division confirmed The first death linked to the storm of the state – a 5 -year -old child found in a southwest house of Little Rock. The agency has provided no other details of the child’s death, but said that it was linked “to the serious time in progress in Arkansas”.

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

The firefighter was identified as Chevy Gall.

“Tonight is the worst nightmare of a fire chief,” the head of the Beaufort-Lefie fire protection district, Terry Feth in a statement on Friday. “We have a heart broken by the loss of one of ours.”

Earlier this week, the Missouri authorities said that another local firefighters, Garry Moore, 68, died on Wednesday helping a blocked driver. Moore was the chief of the fire protection district in lively water.

Overall, the number of deaths is five in Tennessee; three in Missouri; two in Kentucky; And everyone in Indiana and Arkansas.

On Saturday, it was scheduled for the last day of a high impact flood event to several days which wreaked havoc on parts of the valley of the lower and average river, which remains at high risk of flooding. ·

On Sunday, at least 18 river gauges were in major flood from Arkansas to Indiana. Up to 50 river gauges should reach a major flood stadium in the mid-South and the Midwest this week.

Since Friday, the total of the highest precipitation has been reported to East Memphis where more than 14 inches of rain have dropped. At Memphis International Airport, more than 12 inches of rain were recorded, the city recorded its wet day of all time in April with 5.47 inches of rain.

On Saturday evening, Memphis, Tennessee, remained in an emergency of sudden floods while the last series of torrential rains continues to sweep to the east in certain parts of the Mid-South on Saturday afternoon.

The National Weather Service said it was a particularly dangerous situation and potentially fatal floods were expected. An emergency of sudden floods is the highest alert that the NWS issues a threatening flood.

In Arkansas in recent days, up to a rain foot has dropped – equal to about three months of rain.

On Saturday evening, an emergency of the sudden floods emitted earlier for the Little Rock area was canceled and the worst rains were there. However, the sudden major floods continued in the region.

Another emergency of sudden floods in northeast Arkansas, including the cities of the village of Cherokee and Hardy, was also canceled. Earlier Saturday, emergency management managers relayed to the National Weather Service that several water resumes continued in the region, which includes parts of the counties of Lawrence and Sharp.

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

Even if the threat to serious storms will gradually decrease over the weekend while the stationary front grows slowly east, more unstable time will continue to break out on the areas already struck by tornadoes and deadly floods.

In addition to flood threats, Saturday evening made it possible to risk serious thunderstorms and tornadoes. There were tornado watches published in seven states, from Texas to Kentucky, with cities like Memphis, Little Rock, Nashville and Houston on guard.

On Sunday, there had been 91 tornadoes reported in at least 10 Kansas states in Ohio.

The worst of the severe storm, the tornado, the threat of the sudden floods was expected throughout the evening hours like a line of thunderstorms with torrential rains continues to sweep parts of the South.

The biggest threat of tornado was in some parts of western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, including the Metropolitan region of Memphis. In eastern Texas in western Tennessee, strong tornadoes were also expected with a very large hail and destructive gusts of wind.

The threat to bad weather and excessive precipitation will be on Sunday while this system is starting to slide east. However, some parts of Tennessee and Ohio River Valley could see 3 to 6 additional inches before this front border completely comes out of the region by Monday.

Parts of the southeast were under a slight risk (level 2 of 5) for bad weather, where storms had to generate damaging winds, hail and isolated tornadoes.

With this, thunderstorms generating strong precipitation (with potentially reaching 2 to 3 inches per hour) could cause sudden floods in lying down areas. A good part of Georgia and Alabama, as well as certain parts of the Florida Panhandle, southern Mississippi and Southeast of Louisiana, presented a slight risk of flood.

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