Gordon is tearing through the South with heavy rain after making landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border Tuesday night.
The storm killed a child in Pensacola, Florida, when strong winds toppled a tree on his family’s mobile home.
Gordon made landfall as a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph. It never became a hurricane, as it was 4 mph short of reaching the classification of 74 mph winds.
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As Gordon weakened to a tropical depression Wednesday morning, the storm left about 38,000 customers without power across Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Even though Gordon is weakening, it is also slowing down and dumping heavy rain as it moves north.
More than 8 inches of rain fell in southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with ongoing flooding.
Some areas in Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois may get as much as a foot of rain.
Some areas in the upper Mississippi Valley had more than 15 inches of rain in the past week and all the new rain will be running into the major rivers as well.
Flood watches have been issued from the Gulf Coast to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
ABC News’ Briana Montalvo contributed to this report.
