Flooding could impact more than 88 million as storms threaten multiple states

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Flooding could interaction much than 88 cardinal radical crossed the mediate of the state this week, forecasts show, arsenic terrible upwind threatens aggregate U.S. states successful the Midwest and bluish Plains.

The upcoming storms travel connected the heels of others that already brought dense rainfall and beardown winds to parts of the state implicit the weekend, starring to astatine slightest one death successful New York City.

Large swaths of the Midwest were nether flood watches connected Monday morning, including overmuch of Missouri, and Illinois, with immoderate extending farther southbound done Tennessee and into bluish Alabama and Georgia. The watches, which are issued erstwhile upwind conditions mean flooding is imaginable but not needfully guaranteed, presently impact astir 20 cardinal people.

"Locally dense rainfall whitethorn pb to flooding, particularly successful areas that person already received important rainfall successful caller days," the National Weather Service successful Kansas City said successful an advisory Monday.

The National Weather Service said terrible storms crossed the cardinal Plains could perchance nutrient "very ample hail, terrible upwind gusts, and a fewer tornadoes," portion dense rainfall posed risks of flash flooding crossed sections of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Forecasters person predicted that rainfall whitethorn scope up to 8 inches successful definite places.

Cities facing immoderate of the top tempest hazards Monday see Denver, Wichita, Kansas City and St. Louis, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. The southwestern country of Missouri and northwestern country of neighboring Arkansas faced peculiarly steep flooding risks, Nolan said.

Forecasters besides warned that excessive rainfall implicit parts of Tennessee and Alabama would proceed to transportation the imaginable for "considerable and life-threatening flooding" done Monday evening, aft arsenic overmuch arsenic 9 inches of rainfall drenched the portion connected Sunday. Rushing h2o triggered a flash flood exigency adjacent Huntsville, Alabama, wherever video footage captured vehicles partially submerged connected a street. The flooding near immoderate drivers stranded.

Parts of the South were affected, too. In Texas' Milam County, astir an hr extracurricular of Austin, torrential downpours caused vehicles to descent disconnected of section roads connected Saturday and prompted aggregate h2o rescues. In Slidell, Louisiana, up to 6 inches of rainfall fell successful little than 12 hours, which besides caused flash flooding.

As the play storms pounded northeastern states similar Pennsylvania and New York, Pittsburgh nonmigratory Tim Broadwater told "CBS Mornings" that ferocious upwind gusts shook his location truthful violently that it was knocked disconnected of the cement blocks that antecedently held it upright.

"I was frightened to death," Broadwater said. "I thought I was going to extremity up successful the creek."

In New York City, officials said an 85-year-old antheral was struck and killed by a falling tree successful Queens. In Brooklyn, wherever upwind gusts reached 64 mph, video showed furnishings tumbling crossed the platform of a rooftop pool. The city's Parks and Recreation Department said the storms downed much than 250 trees crossed the city.

Another melodramatic country from West Virginia showed upwind blowing a structure crossed a lawn, and dragging respective radical on with it, during a assemblage hoops crippled betwixt West Virginia University and Cal Poly.

Nikki Nolan and Rob Marciano contributed to this report.

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