A FOUR-year-old girl and an 18-year-old girl are among four to have died in a flash flood as six inches of rain left dozens stranded.

Flash flood warnings were in effect Thursday for part of the southeastern United States after a stalled weather front inundated Alabama, leaving high water that blanketed roads, inundated a Piggly Wiggly, released from sewage and forced water rescues.

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Up to six inches of rain fell in about a day as the low pressure system lingered over the Alabama and Florida Panhandle.

The forecast called for particularly heavy rains on Thursday in parts of the Birmingham Underground, which were under flash flood watch, but meteorologists predicted another rainy day for most of the state and parts of Florida.

The Marshall County Coroner’s Office tweeted early Thursday that a four-year-old girl had died from flash flooding in Arab, northeast Alabama.

They later confirmed that an 18-year-old girl was also deceased and her body was found just after 7 a.m. in Union Grove.

Two other bodies were found in a vehicle swept away by heavy flooding, but the individuals have not yet been identified.

The rain has wreaked havoc in parts of northern Alabama, submerging cars in the Birmingham subway and parts of the Tennessee Valley.

Rescue teams helped motorists escape as low visibility and standing water put their lives at risk in some areas.

In southern Alabama, near the Florida Line, water-covered streets in flood-prone towns in Escambia County, Brewton and East Brewton, flooding businesses from a shopping mall with several feet of water.

Up to three feet of water was inside the community’s main grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, and two schools had to cancel classes, Escambia Sheriff Heath Jackson said.

“We hope the rain will stop so we can get some of that water… from here and we can start going into these businesses that have taken the water to see what we can do to help them. Jackson said. WKRG-TV.

To the south, in Baldwin County, up to 250,000 gallons (946,000 liters) of sewage overflowed from sewage systems along Mobile Bay, officials said.

With total precipitation already ranging from 2 inches (5 centimeters) to 6 inches across the state this week, forecasters said an additional 3 inches of rain was possible, with the heaviest rains in the north.

Severe storms and a few isolated tornadoes from a slow low pressure system were a threat, mainly in the afternoon, forecasters said.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for northeast Alabama, northwest Georgia and southern Tennessee.

Rains are expected to end in Alabama by Thursday evening as the storms move east.

Flash flood warnings were in effect through Friday along the weather front, stretching from the Florida panhandle to northern Georgia and the mountainous areas of eastern Tennessee and western Carolinas.

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