Up to 9 Inches of Rain Flood Indiana and Ohio
Pam Soule, emergency management director for LaGrange County in Indiana, said a weather observer in Olive Lake reported 9 inches of rain. Floodwaters damaged at least seven homes in Topeka and two homes in Clearspring Township. Topeka firefighters were filling sandbags to protect other homes, but she said conditions were improving.
"Most of the water that was up over the roads has receded to the point they've taken down the high water signs," she said.
Dianna Snyder, 40, was visiting a public garden in Mansfield, Ohio with her 9-year-old daughter when the girl slipped and was swept through 460 feet of drainage pipe, police Lt. Dave Nirode said. The girl was able to pull herself out on the other side.
Snyder jumped in to rescue her daughter, Nirode said. Her body was found downstream.
Nearby, flooded-out campers had to flee to emergency shelters.
Meanwhile, a tornado in Mount Pleasant, N.Y., threw a truck onto gasoline pumps, partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped off a hotel's roof, said Susan Tolchin, chief adviser to Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano.
There were no reported injuries, officials said, but power was knocked out to more than 4,000 residents.
In North Dakota, parts of which reported temperatures in the 100s on Wednesday, stormy weather caused damage in the town of Coleharbor, officials said. Vehicles were tipped over, trees toppled and roofs ripped off buildings.
Authorities were unsure Wednesday whether a tornado was responsible.