Wichita ? Two people were found dead in a southeast Kansas creek Wednesday, bringing to five the number of deaths blamed on violent storms since the weekend.

The state Division of Emergency Management said Labette County sheriff’s deputies found the bodies of a 26-year-old Parsons man and a 22-year-old woman from Springfield, Mo., early Wednesday. They were in a car submerged in 10 feet of water in Pumpkin Creek, near Mound Valley. The two, whose names were not released, had been reported missing Tuesday evening. Authorities believe they were traveling west on a local road and were swept into the creek at a low-water crossing.

A Lawrence man was killed by lightning in Jefferson County on Saturday while riding with motorcyclists on U.S. 24 in northern Kansas, and a 58-year-old Leavenworth man drowned Monday while trying to clean a spill drain in a private pond near Easton.

On Tuesday, the body of a 20-year-old Yates Center man whose truck was swept off the road was found in a farm field near Quincy after floodwaters receded.

By late Wednesday afternoon, 2 to 4 inches of rain had fallen over much of Kansas in a 48-hour period. Rainfall totals were closer to 5 and 6 inches along a swath from southwest of Wichita into the Flint Hills, said Jim Caruso, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita.

Major street flooding was reported Wednesday from the overflowing Walnut River in Winfield. Wednesday evening, there were reports of tornado touchdowns in Finney County in southwest Kansas.

Cathy Hernandez, the county’s emergency management coordinator, said U.S. 83 was closed from south of Garden City to Sublette in Haskell County because of snapped power poles.

There also were reports of overturned center-pivot irrigation systems along U.S. 83 about nine miles south of Garden City. Hernandez said deputies, public works employees and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers were driving around the area checking with residents where damage was spotted.

The forecast called for another storm system moving into the state this afternoon or evening that could bring fairly widespread rainfall of 1 to 2 inches which could aggravate flooding in southeast and south-central Kansas, Caruso said.