Tenacious storms roll through the Northeast, causing widespread flooding

Repetitive storms dumping heavy rain caused dangerous flooding from Virginia up through New England on July 1.

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00:00There will be some thunder and lightning here in New York in some pockets.

00:03There is a little bit of lightning out there off to the west near Elizabeth, New Jersey.

00:08But overall, had there not been a couple of hours of rain in New York City preceding the thunderstorms,

00:15we'd be in a situation more like what's going on in southern New England.

00:17Here we are dealing with some tenacious storms rolling through southern Massachusetts.

00:22Here we've been in the low to mid-90s in Boston, and we have not seen a drop of rain.

00:26So this atmosphere is 100% untapped, and that's going to fuel these storms that are still marching in to a very humid and hot environment.

00:36So Worcester, Massachusetts in Worcester County, also far northwestern Providence County in Rhode Island,

00:42much of Wyndham County in to, it looks like all of Wyndham County there in Connecticut,

00:47Tolland County, and also places like Hartford County, especially southeastern Hartford County,

00:51under a severe thunderstorm set up right now with severe thunderstorm warnings in those areas.

00:56And there's still a lot of action here into the lower Hudson Valley, up into areas around Bushkill and south of Poughkeepsie,

01:03areas around, this is a spot near Newburgh, New York there.

01:09I'm going to turn the lightning off here.

01:11It just kind of overwhelms the view, but that's where we still have some strong, strong thunderstorms north of the city.

01:17But heading down, I'm going to pull the high-res radar out of Fort Dix, New Jersey,

01:21and really, really concerned about Tom's River.

01:23And this is why the six-hour radar estimates on the north side of town estimate two and well north of there,

01:313.7 inches of rain based on a radar estimate.

01:35However, when we switch over to the current radar, we've got more heavy rain coming into the area near Tom's River.

01:40So there's this repetitive nature to the rain that's going to take some that might be around two or three inches of rain

01:45and dump you over four inches of rain within the next hour for your daily rainfall total.

01:51And that's going to spell trouble there with ongoing flash flooding becoming even worse.

01:55Philadelphia, parts of Upper Bucks and parts of Way, northwestern Berks County and up into Bucks County

02:02under a severe risk of flash flooding continuing, even though the rain is dropping off a bit.

02:08We have some severe thunderstorms continuing east of I-95 into Fredericksburg and points east of the Chesapeake Bay

02:13and other areas here, Buckingham County in Virginia.

02:16We're facing some severe thunderstorms.

02:19So again, parts of Berks County and far northwestern Bucks County, Montgomery County,

02:23ongoing flash flooding there on the backside of some recent severe storms.

02:27Damian, lots of ground stops.

02:28Look at this list here.

02:29What a mess here into the northeast with lots of flights canceled and just not happening right now.

02:35Absolutely.

02:35So this severe weather, whenever it impacts the northeast, it really impacts the northeast.

02:39So we're going to be watching out for that trend.

02:41Here's what we head into this evening as we head into tonight.