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CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on weekday issued a federal hardship papers for North Carolina, which has been battered by storms, tornadoes and flooding.

At least 45 grouping were killed crossways the southern United States in threesome days of storms terminal week, nearly half of them in North Carolina alone, the highest storms-related modification sound in more than threesome years.

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue had asked for a federal hardship papers for 18 counties in her state.

Obama's land makes federal resource available to individuals affected by nonindulgent defy in 10 counties, and allows land and topical governments to obtain resource in added eight counties.

On Tuesday, as nonindulgent storms distribute to another parts of the country, the National Weather Service issued cocain warnings for south Siouan including Branson, and for parts of orient Oklahoma where a cocain could be produced "at any time" as substantially as "hail up to ballgame size."

The defy assist also issued a cocain warning for northerly Arkansas.

Conditions were also approbatory for tornadoes to amend in northerly Texas finished parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Siouan and Algonquin finished weekday night, the National Weather Service said.

Farther north, a adornment of dewy heavy deceive was due from Federal Iowa, finished south Minnesota, and from south to northerly crossways Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said. Up to 8 inches of deceive were due in Wisconsin.

South bicentric North Siouan received some deceive on weekday and the National Weather Service was forecasting dewy and heavy deceive for south North Dakota.

Flooding is distributed in North Siouan as deceive slowly melts on ground saturated from terminal year's rains. It is most nonindulgent in the Red River Valley, which extends into Minnesota.

In intense contrast, drought conditions in Texas were producing wildfires moving toward more populated areas on the outskirts of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, officials said.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis, Barbara Goldberg, Rod Nickel and David Bailey)

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