Heavy rains led to street closures and a number of other flash-flood warnings in Mississippi on Thursday, a day after warnings have been issued for elements of Arkansas and Louisiana.

About 13 inches of rain had fallen in Winston County by Thursday afternoon, in line with the National Weather Service workplace in Jackson, Miss. The climate adopted days of damaging flooding throughout the Northeast.

A flash-flood emergency alert, indicating life-threatening hazard, was in impact for cities together with Louisville, Miss., which is in that county. Flash-flood warnings have been issued for different elements of the state. Winston County is about 100 miles northeast of Jackson.

“It’s been raining about three inches an hour,” Sarah Sickles, a meteorologist within the Weather Service’s workplace in Jackson, mentioned on Thursday afternoon, including that “it’s still ongoing.”

Flooding was prone to proceed by way of Thursday for a big portion of the state, however the rain was anticipated to wind down late within the afternoon. More rain was anticipated on Friday, but it surely was not anticipated to be as intense, Ms. Sickles mentioned.

There have been no fast reviews of accidents, Ms. Sickles mentioned, however the Mississippi Department of Transportation and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency advised residents to keep away from flooded roadways in parts of Winston, Choctaw and Noxubee counties.

“Do NOT drive through flooded areas!” the transportation company wrote in a tweet.

In addition to street closures, there have been reviews of individuals being rescued from their properties, in line with Ms. Sickles and the Winston County Sheriff’s Office.

Photos on social media confirmed rising waters reaching the home windows of properties and vehicles whereas additionally flooding companies. At least one roof of a enterprise collapsed from heavy rain in downtown Ackerman, in line with Dylan Hudler, a meteorologist at WCBI-TV who shared photographs of the injury.

The flash-flood warnings got here a day after the National Weather Service in Shreveport, La., warned that harmful quantities of rain may have an effect on counties in southwestern Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana.

The warnings got here days after the governor of Vermont mentioned flooding there was “historic and catastrophic” and storms in New York killed a 43-year-old woman.