{"id":20592,"date":"2025-04-06T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20592"},"modified":"2025-04-06T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:42:30","slug":"us-storms-severe-flooding-death-toll-climbs-to-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-storms-severe-flooding-death-toll-climbs-to-16\/","title":{"rendered":"US storms, ‘severe’ flooding death toll climbs to 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Violent storms battering the central-eastern United States have killed at least 16 people, officials said, with the National Weather Service warning on Saturday of “severe” flash flooding in the coming days.<\/p>\n

A line of fierce storms stretching from Arkansas to Ohio has damaged buildings, flooded roadways and produced dozens of tornadoes in recent days.<\/p>\n

Tennessee was hardest hit by extreme weather, with state authorities saying on Saturday that 10 people had died across the western part of the state.<\/p>\n

Two people were killed due to floods in Kentucky, according to state Governor Andy Beshear, including a child who was “swept away by floodwaters.”<\/p>\n

Photos shared on social and local media showed widespread damage from the storm across several states, with homes torn apart, toppled trees, downed power lines and overturned cars.<\/p>\n

“Severe, widespread flash flooding is expected” into Sunday in parts of the central-eastern region, the National Weather Service (NWS) said, warning that “lives and property are in great danger.”<\/p>\n

Two storm-related deaths were recorded in Missouri and one in Indiana, according to local media reports and authorities.<\/p>\n

A five-year-old was found dead in a home in Little Rock, Arkansas “in connection to the ongoing severe weather,” the state’s emergency management agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Flooding has reached record levels in many communities,” Kentucky’s Governor Beshear wrote on social media Saturday, urging residents in the state to “avoid travel, and never drive through water.”<\/p>\n

More than 100,000 customers were without power in Arkansas and Tennessee as of early Sunday, according to tracking website PowerOutage.us.<\/p>\n

The NWS on Saturday said that moderate to severe tornadoes could form in parts of the Tennessee Valley and Lower Mississippi Valley on Sunday, along with “severe thunderstorms.”<\/p>\n

Scientists say global warming is disrupting climate patterns and the water cycle, making extreme weather more frequent and ferocious.<\/p>\n

Last year set a record for high temperatures in the United States, with the country also pummeled by a barrage of tornadoes and destructive hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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