Devastating, life-threatening floods have already started in some states as an atmospheric river causes heavy rainfall.

NWS office in Paducah, Kentucky, in a flood watch: "Showers and storms through today produced 1 to 4 inches of rainfall ...

The states were hit hard by severe flooding over the weekend after an atmospheric river dumped torrential rain on the region.

The flooding came with storms caused by an atmospheric river that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...