Severe thunderstorms bring damaging winds to Mid-Atlantic while South faces expanding flood threat

RALEIGH, N.C. — Severe thunderstorms are targeting the Mid-Atlantic, including Virginia and North Carolina, with another round of damaging wind gusts, just days after storms disrupted July 4 celebrations across the region.

Meanwhile, the unsettled summer weather pattern will also renew the flash flood threat across parts of Virginia and North Carolina while expanding into the Tennessee Valley on Wednesday, after storms inundated millions across parts of New Jersey, the New York City metro area, New England and Pennsylvania earlier in the week. 

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Days of low-end afternoon thunderstorms are expected to develop over the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas through the end of the week.

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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Level 1 out of 5 risk of severe storms for southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, including Raleigh on Wednesday, with damaging wind gusts being the main hazard.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, more than 12,000 damaging wind reports have been recorded by the SPC across the Lower 48 this year, with the majority occurring across the Midwest and East Coast.

"That is well above the typical pace for mid-July, when the average is around 8,700 reports — more than 3,000 fewer than this year's total. In fact, July 4 was the busiest day of the year for severe weather reports across the East, with damaging winds accounting for most of those reports," the FOX Forecast Center said.

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Severe storms are expected to reignite over Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

This summer thunderstorm pattern will also bring isolated flash flooding across Virginia and North Carolina, and into parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys through Thursday.

This follows widespread flash flooding across the Northeast earlier this week. Torrential downpours flooded neighborhoods and roads and even caused a roof collapse at a wholesale club in Monmouth County, New Jersey on Monday.

Authorities said the collapse happened at around 11:15 a.m. There were 27 people inside the building at the time but no one was significantly injured.

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Heavy rain flooded communities along the Jersey shore. Drone video shows neighborhoods bad subdivisions in Deal and Asbury Park completely inundated.

Flash flooding inundated parts of New York's Long Island, where drivers navigated flooded roads to leave their neighborhoods and some vehicles became stranded in high water.

Severe storms battered the region across the July 4 holiday weekend, beginning late Friday afternoon, leading to the cancellation of some outdoor celebrations.

Powerful wind gusts took down trees and power lines, with nearly one million customers without power at the peak of the storms over the holiday weekend.

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Heavy rain Sunday prompted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to warn people living in basement apartments to be ready to evacuate. The city opened public schools to serve as shelters late Sunday.

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