Warning AR, TX, MO Du'ers: 4 Dead, 3 Missing in Central US Floods

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Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday across a wide swath of the nation's midsection as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain on the region.

Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, a search was under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water.

The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. About 10 inches had fallen by Wednesday morning in southeast Missouri's Cape Girardeau County, where street flooding marooned some residents in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. The weather service said 6.7 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Jasper, Ark., and nearly 6 inches had fallen at Evansville, Ind.

Orlando Sentinel

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1. State Highway 123 closed

because of high floodwaters. This is southeast of Jasper AR. Lots of flooding around here.

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2. Update: 9 dead, 4 missing in central US storm

PIEDMONT, Mo. - Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday across the nation's midsection as a storm system poured as much as a foot of rain on the region. Nine deaths were linked to the weather and four people were missing.