The Associated Press

VANCEBURG - Searchers on Saturday continued to look for a missing woman lost in flooding this week in northwestern Lewis County.

The woman was riding in a Chevrolet pickup with four men Thursday as storms and tornados were ripping through a northern swath of the state. The rural area is near the Kentucky-Ohio border.

Officials said high waters in the Crooked Creek area swept the truck away close to midnight on Thursday. Three men in the truck were killed, and a fourth survived.

Search workers planned to search for Crystal Dawn Rigdon, 21, until dark on Saturday, and then resume this morning if the woman isn't found, said Stacy Floden, a spokeswoman for the state Emergency Management Division.

There were about 50 people searching, some with dogs and boats, she said.

Jason Heater, 20, Jason Reid, 19, and Brent Lewis, 22, all of Vanceburg, were killed. Lewis County Coroner Tony Gaydos said he believed the men drowned. Their bodies were taken to the state medical examiner's office in Fort Thomas Friday for autopsies.

The men were found on Friday morning, state police said. Heater's brother, Josh Heater, survived with only minor injuries.

The accident was reported at 6:04 a.m. Friday after Heater was found sitting on a front porch about 2 miles from where the truck entered the water.

"He said he'd been walking up and down the road all night looking for them," the homeowner, Joella Mason, told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "He appeared to me to be in shock."