1 Death in the floods in Oklahoma while the showers hit the region

A man from Oklahoma died after being swept away by floods on Wednesday while heavy rains hit this state and Texas, which had around 16 million people under high -water alerts, officials said.

The man in the county of Pottawatomy died after his vehicle was swept on a roadway around 12:30 p.m., and after an assistant to a sheriff who tried to save him was also trapped in the water, said the sheriff’s office. The deputy was rescued by firefighters.

“Tragically, despite all the efforts made, the individual in distress could not be reached in time and died on the scene”, the sheriff’s office said in a press release on social networks. “Our hearts are heavy this evening for this loss of life, and we express our deepest condolences to the family and their loved ones.”

The death occurred while the roads and other areas of Oklahoma and the Dallas region were flooded due to strong precipitation caused by a frontal border in standby, the National Weather Service said.

The strong precipitation there came one day after the bad weather contributed to the death of four people in PennsylvaniaOne of which was electrocuted while he was trying to turn off a mulch fire, the police said.

About 2 inches of rain in Wichita Falls, Texas, and 2.8 inch in Lawton, Oklahoma, forecasters of the weather service in Norman, in Oklahoma.

On Wednesday afternoon, around 16 million people were under watches or warnings in Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri.

Tornado watches also covered an area where nearly 5 million people live in Northern Louisiana and most of Arkansas on Wednesday afternoon, he said.

The heaviest rain threat concerned the south-east of Oklahoma, in northeast Texas and western Arkansas, the meteorological service said.

The heaviest rain had moved the south-east of Oklahoma by the end of Wednesday afternoon, the weather service told Norman, but Rivers was to continue to flood until Thursday.

In the Dallas region, a flood warning remained in place for the Rowlett stream near Sachse until 7:50 a.m. Thursday. Moderate floods were expected, The weather service said.

Precipitation for the United States Center-South Center should end on Thursday, but the risk of thunderstorms will then move to the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys, the meteorological service said.