Police: 2 dead in Oklahoma flooding as region remains under severe weather watch

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Two people, including a child, person died successful Oklahoma flooding arsenic meteorologists warned Sunday of further flooding, thunderstorms and tornadoes from the Midwest to the South.

Police successful Moore, astir 10 miles (16 kilometers) southbound of Oklahoma City, received dozens of reports of “high-water incidents” implicit the play including 2 cars stranded successful flood waters Saturday evening. One car was swept distant nether a bridge, and constabulary said they were capable to rescue immoderate people, but a pistillate and 12-year-old lad were recovered dead.

“This was a humanities upwind lawsuit that impacted roads and resulted successful dozens of high-water incidents crossed the city,” Moore constabulary said successful a connection Sunday. Moore has astir 63,000 people.

The National Weather Service issued flooding and terrible thunderstorm warnings successful ample swaths of Oklahoma arsenic good arsenic portions of Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and confederate Illinois amid a tempest strategy from the confederate Plains to the Upper Midwest. Meteorologists predicted dense rainfall and imaginable tornadoes successful Arkansas and Missouri.