A 10-year-old boy from Missouri died Wednesday after a log struck him outside a beachfront condo in Fort Morgan, Alabama, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said.
Heavy rain for much of the eastern half of the USA this week. particularly near the Gulf Coast as tropical moisture surges north.
Authorities continued to warn that driving rains spinning off from the storm could still cause risky flash floods. That should limit flooding threats to nuisance street flooding.
In West Virginia, forecasters warned of possible flooding, damaging wind gusts and severe thunderstorms once what remains of Cindy arrives and merges with another storm front later in the week.
Jim Stefkovich, a meteorologist with the Alabama Emergency Agency, said Cindy dumped three to six inches of rain on coastal Alabama with up to 12 inches in some spot.
By midday Thursday the storm had cut Gulf of Mexico oil production by 16 percent, representing around 288,000 barrels per day of output, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said.
The bulk of the bad weather though, was miles to the east as parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coasts suffered with heavy rains that produced localized flooding.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that Louisiana is "not out of the woods yet" as the remnants of Cindy continue to move north across the state.
Forecasters warn that heavy rainfall will spread over the Tennessee and OH valleys Thursday. This may bring storm total rainfall in excess of 15 inches in some isolated locations. However, the weather service said there isn't a reason to be concerned in the Charlotte area.
Cindy made landfall in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. CDT Thursday with maximum sustained winds between 40 and 45 miles per hour.
Before the storm made landfall on Thursday, one person had already died from injuries related to its winds.
The weather service said the flash flood watch was issued for most of the state from late Thursday night through late Friday night.
The National Hurricane Center forecast that the storm would reach southeastern Arkansas early Friday and Tennessee later that day, possibly causing more flooding. There were numerous reports of waterspouts and short-lived tornadoes spawned by the storm.
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