Flash flooding spread into eastern Tennessee late Tuesday, stranding vehicles and closing roads in western Knoxville, Lenoir City and part of Pigeon Forge, as rounds of storms with heavy rain and powerful winds move across the Midwest and Ohio Valley this week.
The flooding marked the latest wave in a relentless storm pattern that has killed a 4-year-old child and knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses.
Many of the same battered communities face another round of flooding rain and severe thunderstorms Wednesday. The greatest flood threat is from southeastern Indiana through western Ohio and northern Kentucky, where saturated ground could cause new downpours to quickly overwhelm roads and waterways.
Here’s the latest:
Death in Indiana: A 4-year-old child died in southeastern Indiana on Tuesday after a tree fell on a house in Geneva Township, according to Cody Low, chief deputy for the Jennings County sheriff’s department. The child was “either entrapped or injured” when the 911 call came in around 3:30 p.m., but when responders arrived they found the child dead in the home, Low told CNN.
