The National Weather Service (NWS) issued flood warnings and advisories across eight southern U.S. states on Thursday as severe thunderstorms brought heavy rain and raised the risk of rapid flooding.

More than 40 million Americans are in the threat zone through Saturday night, stretching from Texas to the Carolinas.

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Big rain will gather again over a large portion of the south-central ... central parts of Texas and Oklahoma, before expanding eastward to portions of Arkansas and much of Louisiana throughout ...

The threat of thunderstorms, flash flooding, and a chance of tornadoes hovered over the south ... Texas, forecasters said. North Texas, southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas, and northwest ...

Critical fire weather, characterized by drought, low humidity and winds up to 15 miles per hour, is forecast for northern Texas, Oklahoma ... South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi ...