Lethal flash floods kill 13 in San Antonio and no less than 3 in West Virginia : NPR

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Lekan Oyekanmi/AP Flash floods hit the San Antonio space late final week, leaving 13 lifeless, the San Antonio Fireplace Division confirmed over the weekend.

The flooding arrived within the San Antonio space on Thursday, when a document 6.11 inches of rain fell, together with about 4 inches that fell in a single hour early Thursday morning, based on the Nationwide Climate Service.

On Saturday, the fireplace division launched the names of most these killed, Texas Public Radio reported.

The hearth division mentioned it responded to greater than 70 water rescues, based on TPR. The hearth division didn't instantly reply to NPR's request for details about rescues.

"Over the past couple of years, we have been coping with a drought," Mack Morris, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service, mentioned to NPR on Sunday. "So we have not had plenty of flash flooding happen over the past three to 5 years, no less than not something almost as vital as what occurred on Thursday."

Different areas in Texas witnessed excessive rainfall on Thursday, largely attributable to thunderstorms in southern Texas.

Storms in Appalachia additionally contributed to no less than three deaths in West Virginia over the weekend. The state's Wheeling-Ohio County emergency administration company mentioned extra folks have been reported lacking.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey declared a state of emergency for Ohio County. He mentioned on Sunday that roughly 3 to 4 inches of rain fell in lower than an hour in some areas, and there was flash flooding within the metropolis of Wheeling and cities of Triadelphia and Valley Grove.

Extra storms are predicted throughout the U.S.

Elements of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas might see extreme thunderstorms with giant hail and important gusts of wind, some being over 75 miles per hour, based on the NWS.

Virginia, North Carolina and a number of other states within the central and southern Plains might additionally see "robust to extreme thunderstorms," based on the NWS.