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Heavy rain + flooding expected for some Thursday evening

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By: Mark Johnson , Trent Magill , Katie McGraw , Phil Sakal

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CLEVELAND — Coming off the severe storms on Tuesday, you may be concerned about more damaging storms. While the threat is never zero, it looks MUCH lower than Tuesday. The biggest issue appears to be heavy rain that could lead to isolated flooding as well as lightning. Downpours started to develop around 3 pm Thursday and have parked themselves over a few communities dropping buckets of rain. Some communities ended up with 5-7 inches of rain within a few hours! Therefore, the National Weather Service has issued several flash flood warnings. Storm coverage will decrease after midnight.

Two systems will play a role in our forecast to wrap up the work week. There is a cold front moving in from the northwest. There is also Tropical Storm Debby to our SE. As the cold front slides toward NEO, it will bring a few storms to the area but also looks to push the worst of the remnants of Debby away from our location. The outer bands of Debby will likely bring a few storms Thursday evening and into Friday. The best chance to see storms this evening and early Friday will be along and east of I-71.

We take a drop in temps Friday as the cold front sweeps through and brings even cooler air for the weekend. Most of the weekend looks dry with only a slim shot for a shower, particularly
on Sunday in far NE Ohio. Much of the next week will remain below average in the temperature department with only isolated showers.

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