One bit of good news for the battered Southeast was a forecast for calmer weather on Sunday.
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Two people are missing in the floodwaters, he said. One person died in Arkansas, and dozens of homes were damaged.
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Even so, such tornadoes can cause damage and even deaths and injuries.
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Four inches of rain walloped the city of Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday – smashing the previous record of 5.59cm set in 1990. Flood water from the Catoma Creek running on Dumas Street in Montgomery, Ala., begins to recede Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
Stephanie Parker is the emergency manager for Ellis County, which is about 30 miles south of Dallas. Three homes were also destroyed. “Please do not get out on the roads if you do not have to”.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn confirms two bodies were found Saturday morning in Benton County. Residents in Lubbock and Amarillo prepared for a storm expected to begin overnight.
“Until they know for sure where those folks are, they’re going to keep looking, because we’ve had in some cases houses leveled, and they’re just not there anymore”, Flynn said.
The Red Cross said it was setting up shelters for people whose homes were damaged by the storm.
Search teams combed damaged homes and businesses for people still missing, a hunt made complicated because so many had left for the holidays.
Tornadoes are possible in parts of Alabama north of the I-20 corridor, with other damaging winds of up to 60 miles per hour possible.
The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have thrashed the southeastern USA since Wednesday, amounting to record rainfalls in some areas.
At least three people who died were found in vehicles, said Barineau, who also noted that some cars appeared to be thrown from the interstate, though it wasn’t known whether that was the case for the people found in the vehicles.
The National Weather Service said the Dallas area was under a tornado warning Saturday.
At least 14 people were confirmed dead – seven of them in MS, including a 7-year-old boy who perished while riding in a vehicle that was swept up and tossed by storm winds. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the victims were a 19-year-old female and two 22-year-old males. An Alabama official said volunteers have worked to distribute sandbags as flooding remained a major concern after severe storms battered the state.
More flooding is expected in parts of northern Alabama, and residents have been warned against driving in certain areas.
Members of the Hopewell Baptist church give out food after a tornado caused damage in a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, December 26, 2015.
Seven people were killed by more than a dozen tornadoes that ripped through Mississippi.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth confirmed that a tornado touched down south of Dallas earlier this evening.
The severe weather snarled air traffic in the Dallas area.
The blizzard warning for the region takes effect at 6 p.m. Saturday and runs through noon Monday.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for three counties.
Forecasters predict rain throughout much of Arkansas today, with periods of heavy rainfall. Days of tumultuous weather in the Southeast have led to 21 deaths overall.
“The Wilkins family lost everything, but they told me, ‘It’s still Christmas”.
Other parts of the country face possible storms and blizzards Saturday.
The storms, feeding on unseasonably warm air, left a trail of destruction in rural communities from Alabama to IL, just as Christmas reached its crescendo. The previous high was 80, last hit on December 3, 2005.
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Contributing to this report are Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant in Dallas, Chevel Johnson in New Orleans, Jonathan Landrum in Atlanta, and Dylan Lovan in Louisville.
