Dallas ? The sky was mercifully clear over much of Texas on Saturday after three weeks of drenching rain, as search teams combed the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter.

The death toll from storms that have battered Texas since last month climbed to 15 with the recovery of two other flood victims elsewhere in the state.

Celeste Munoz, 8, plays in water sprayed from a hose in her cousin's yard in Carson City, Nev., on Saturday as temperatures climbed into the triple digits.

The 26-year-old missing man was on a rubber raft that capsized Friday on the Trinity.

“We don’t know if he’s still trapped in that low-head dam or whether he went downstream,” Fort Worth fire department spokesman Kent Worley said.

A companion had to swim about 300 yards against the swift current to safety, but Worley said that man never saw his friend after their raft flipped. Neither man wore a life jacket. After eight hours, crews suspended the search until morning, Worley said.

Elsewhere across the region, rivers in Oklahoma and Kansas have been receding, revealing millions of dollars in damage to thousands of homes and businesses, besides the 1,000 or so damaged in Texas.

On Saturday, President Bush issued a federal disaster declaration for Oklahoma, freeing federal funds to aid two counties ravaged by the flooding.

Along the Oklahoma-Texas state line, Lake Texoma reached the top of a 640-foot-high concrete spillway Saturday, with waves lapping over the top, the Army Corps of Engineers said. The corps has been pumping an estimated 27,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Red River to help control the lake’s level.

The lake, with a normal level of 619 feet, is expected to crest about 6 inches higher than the spillway Monday.

There was only a 20 percent to 30 percent chance of storms in Oklahoma on Saturday and today, forecaster Erin Maxwell said early Saturday.

“The activity over the weekend probably wouldn’t impact Lake Texoma levels too dramatically, but there’s another low pressure system coming next week,” Maxwell said. “That’s just the way the weather pattern has been this year.”

In Texas, forecasters said severe storms appeared to be tapering. Although more storms were forecast for the coming week in North Texas and along the coast, the heavier rainfall is predicted to be more localized.