A woman was found dead in Missouri on Saturday after heavy rainfall battered parts of the state the previous day, forcing numerous emergency rescues and evacuations, including at a summer camp with more than 200 children. Several other states also faced the potential for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding as the slow-moving storms moved south. The National Weather Service said the severe weather impacted a wide region stretching from the Ozark Mountains in southern Missouri eastward into much of the Ohio and Tennessee river valleys, the AP reports.
The storms could bring damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and scattered flash flooding to the multistate region, with some places seeing impacts into Sunday, forecasters said. In eastern Tennessee, flooding closed some roads and downed power lines, and authorities from Kentucky to West Virginia told people to be ready to seek higher ground. Missouri's Emergency Management Agency warned that while the storms move south and out of the state, more thunderstorms could still bring additional flash flooding, especially in areas that have already received 6 and 12 inches of rain.
The body of Faith Gregory, who went missing in Crawford County after her home was swept away from its foundation, was found by volunteers late Saturday morning about 1.8 miles downstream from her residence in Huzzah Creek, according to the sheriff's office. There was no longer anyone unaccounted for in the county, which is about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis. The weather service issued flash flood warnings for the area as thunderstorms piled on one after another. "It's very, very popular place for recreation," Matt Beitscher, a lead meteorologist with the weather service in St. Louis, said of the affected counties. "So there are campgrounds there. There are float trip locations there. A lot of vulnerable populations that would be susceptible to flash flooding."
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