Five people have drowned after torrential rain brought flooding and forced evacuations across three southern states.
Louisiana officials said a six-year-old girl was killed as her mother lost control of her car in Ouachita Parish.
In the same state, a 63-year-old man died when a car was swept off a flooded road and a 22-year-old man has also been confirmed dead.
In southeastern Oklahoma, a 30-year-old man drowned on Tuesday night after trying to drive his SUV across a low-crossing bridge covered by floodwater.
And in Texas, a 22-year-old man drowned on Monday night when his canoe capsized in Dickinson Bayou, southeast of Houston.
Up to a foot of rain is expected to fall across the region by the end of the week.
Officials in western Tennessee and southern Arkansas have shut down schools and closed off roads.
Flash flood watches have been put in place for areas stretching from Port O'Connor in Texas to Springfield, Illinois.
Highway 157 remains closed after flooding near Shreveport, Louisiana
Several parishes in Louisiana have declared a state of emergency and the National Guard has been sent in to help.
Up to 80 homes and a nursing home were evacuated in the state.
In Bossier City, 3,500 homes were evacuated because a bayou was approaching the top of its levee.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Hansford said the levee could be breached on Thursday.
The National Guard has also evacuated 70 dogs, 16 chickens and even a guinea pig.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued the evacuation order after nearly a foot of rain fell on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sharon Anderson, her three children and four grandchildren were rescued from their mobile home in Bossier Parish after rising water threatened to trap them.
She told the Associated Press news agency: "This morning it was touching the bottom of the houses.
"Now the steps on my back porch are under water, and if you walk down the driveway it's over the knee.
"We're literally trapped. You have to get a boat to get to our doors in this neighbourhood."
On Monday, a tornado destroyed a mobile home park in Tolar, north Texas, injuring two people.
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