Residents across Kentucky and the central United States fled their homes as officials ordered evacuations and nearby rivers continued to rise.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on X, Sunday: "There are currently 539 road closures across Kentucky due to record flooding, mudslides and a rockslide. Traffic is being rerouted in communities like Dawson Springs, and we've had 250 additional barricades delivered to Elizabethtown from Chicago.

Whether in their own watercraft or through local rescue teams, residents left their homes along the raging Kentucky River.

All Kentucky state offices will be closed due to extreme flooding in the commonwealth. A release obtained by Eyewitness News says the executive branch will close all state buildings including driver testing offices on Monday.

See photos and video of flooding across Kentucky, including Frankfort, Owen County, Pendleton County, Woodford County, Mercer County and Lincoln County.

Kentucky remains in the throes of deadly flooding from a severe storm system that has dumped torrential rain over the state since Wednesday. The continued significant levels of rainfall have resulted in historic flooding in some areas.

The rising water levels have prompted rescues and road closures. The storm, which has killed at least 16 people, doesn’t show signs of letting up.

Officials have imposed a mandatory evacuation for residents in two Kentucky towns as high floodwaters are expected due to flooding from the Licking River.

The Kentucky River is projected to crest at 49.5 feet, one foot higher than the all-time record set in 1978, resulting in flooding throughout Frankfort.

Rising river levels in Kentucky are prompting evacuations and warnings to move to safer ground with water rescues under way in flooded areas.

The storm system resulted in at least 16 deaths by early Sunday, with overnight tornado and flash flood warnings setting up more severe weather that forecasters say could cause rising waterways for days to come.

The storms, fueled by a stationary atmospheric river, unleashed tornadoes Wednesday night and Thursday from Arkansas to Illinois, flattening homes, destroying businesses and overturning semi-trucks.Start the day smarter.

Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels Monday and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and parts of the Midwest.

South and Midwest, still reeling from violent storms, tornadoes and flooding that have killed more than a dozen people, face new flooding and tornado warnings that forecasters said could last for days.

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding came Saturday for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned deadly tornadoes.

Heavy rain will drench the Northeast on Monday as several states are reeling from last week's powerful spring storms that unleashed major flooding and left at least 21 people dead. Last week's storms wreaked havoc over the Midwest and the mid-South and later turned east.

On Saturday, storms produced strong winds, large hail and a few tornadoes in parts of the lower Ohio Valley and the lower to middle Mississippi valleys. The same threats are shift

Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already damaged by days of storms that have killed at least 18 people.