Hard-Hit Areas Dry After Significant Flooding, Severe Storms
10/10/2009 6:10 AM
Quiet but cool weather will remain this weekend throughout the southern Plains eastward into the
Tennessee Valley after days of flooding rain and severe thunderstorms.
Highs
By Meghan
Evans
AccuWeather.com
Quiet but
cool weather will remain this weekend throughout the southern Plains eastward
into the
Tennessee Valley after days of
flooding rain and
severe thunderstorms.
Highs will be about 10-20 degrees below normal throughout the weekend across much of the region following the
cold front that triggered the severe weather.
Residents from parts of Oklahoma eastward into
southern Missouri and
northern Arkansas will especially welcome the quiet weather. Anywhere from
3-5 inches of rain fell over recent days which caused major flooding issues.
Communities located to the
southwest of Springfield, Mo., were inundated by nearly a foot of rain Friday morning.
Numerous streams and small rivers overflowed their banks from Oklahoma northeastward into Ohio. Some
streams and rivers rose to major flood stage and will take days to recede to normal
levels.
High water closed roads and washed out bridges in a few locations. In areas with the worst flooding, motorists were stranded in high water and some
high water rescues had to be performed.
Three teens were killed in car accident on Thursday between Springfield and Willard, Mo. It was raining heavily at the time of the crash and water
covered the road. According to News-Leader.com of Springfield, Mo., witnesses said that the car with the teens appeared to hydroplane before
traveling into the path of a pickup truck.
Damaging storms with
strong winds blew out windows, downed trees and power lines and damaged the
roofs of buildings in a number of communities from the
Arklatex Region to
the lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys late Thursday into Friday.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologists will continue to monitor the potential for rain to return to hard-hit areas during the early to middle part of next
week as cleanup goes on without interruption this weekend.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Andrew Ulrich contributed to this story.
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