Eyewitnesses caught the moment firefighters pulled an elderly woman to safety as her car was surrounded by several feet of gushing floodwaters in a suburban street in Wichita, Kansas, on Tuesday as the Midwest and parts of the South were battered by storms,

Some two million people were under a flash flood warning in the two states as several inches of rain fell, trapping some in their cars.

Showers and a chance of severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes are a risk across across several regions of the United States through the end of May, forecasters said.