Over 11,000 people in the Kansas City area were without power as of 9:48 a.m. Thursday, according to the Evergy outage map. Over 3,00 people in Jackson County, and more than 6,000 in Johnson County were also without power. Restoration is delayed and there is no estimated restoration time available.

Two days of heavy downpours in South Korea have killed at least four people and forced more than 1,300 others to evacuate.

Four people died and more than 1,000 have been evacuated in South Korea after the country was lashed by torrential rain on Thursday, the safety ministry said.

"Heavy rain is already moving through Louisiana and will continue over the next few days," AccuWeather's Alex DaSilva said.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department reports the country has received 82% more rainfall than normal during the first two weeks of July compared to the same period last year.

The system that brought extreme amounts of rainfall throughout the night and into this morning is pushing southeast out of the area. For the most part, the metro and points northward, rain has mainly come to an end.

The good news is a marked decrease in intensity of the thunderstorms in the past two hours. As of 7:30 p.m. there is only one isolated severe thunderstorm warning in effect over the entire Great Lakes region. The National Weather Service has watched this decline and cancelled the severe thunderstorm watch in effect for this evening.

Two people died and more than 1,000 have been evacuated in South Korea after the country was lashed by torrential rain on Thursday, the safety ministry said. As of 11 a.m. (0200 GMT), some parts of the South Chungcheong region to the south of the capital Seoul had seen more than 400 millimetres (15.

Meteorologists are keeping an eye on the Gulf as a disturbance moves westward across the Florida Panhandle between Tallahassee and Panama City on Wednesday, July 16. The disturbance, designated as AL93,