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RALEIGH, N.C. — Severe thunderstorms are targeting the Mid-Atlantic, including Virginia and North Carolina, with different circular of damaging wind gusts, conscionable days aft storms disrupted July 4 celebrations crossed the region.
Meanwhile, the unsettled summertime upwind signifier volition besides renew the flash flood threat crossed parts of Virginia and North Carolina portion expanding into the Tennessee Valley connected Wednesday, aft storms inundated millions crossed parts of New Jersey, the New York City metro area, New England and Pennsylvania earlier successful the week.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 04: Visitors shield themselves from particulate blown into the aerial by precocious winds from a passing tempest during "Salute to America 250" Fourth of July celebrations connected the National Mall connected July 04, 2026 successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images))
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A histrion falls connected apical of powerfulness lines during terrible storms successful Lyme, Connecticut, connected July 4, 2026. (Lyme Fire Company)
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DEAL, NEW JERSEY, US - JULY 6: A presumption of flooded streets aft dense rainfall successful Deal, New Jersey, connected Monday, July 6, 2026. ((Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images))
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DEAL, NEW JERSEY, US - JULY 6: A presumption of flooded streets aft dense rainfall successful Deal, New Jersey, connected Monday, July 6, 2026. ((Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images))
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DEAL, NEW JERSEY, US - JULY 6: A presumption of flooded streets aft dense rainfall successful Deal, New Jersey, connected Monday, July 6, 2026. ((Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images))
Days of low-end day thunderstorms are expected to make implicit the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas done the extremity of the week.
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Level 1 retired of 5 hazard of terrible storms for confederate Virginia and bluish North Carolina, including Raleigh connected Wednesday, with damaging upwind gusts being the main hazard.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, much than 12,000 damaging upwind reports person been recorded by the SPC crossed the Lower 48 this year, with the bulk occurring crossed the Midwest and East Coast.
(FOX Weather)
"That is good supra the emblematic gait for mid-July, erstwhile the mean is astir 8,700 reports — much than 3,000 less than this year's total. In fact, July 4 was the busiest time of the twelvemonth for terrible upwind reports crossed the East, with damaging winds accounting for astir of those reports," the FOX Forecast Center said.
MILLIONS ACROSS UPPER MIDWEST FACE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS, FLOODING AS SUMMER STORMS THREATEN THE REGION
Severe storms are expected to reignite implicit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. connected Thursday.
This summertime thunderstorm signifier volition besides bring isolated flash flooding crossed Virginia and North Carolina, and into parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys done Thursday.
(FOX Weather)
This follows wide flash flooding crossed the Northeast earlier this week. Torrential downpours flooded neighborhoods and roads and adjacent caused a extortion illness astatine a wholesale nine successful Monmouth County, New Jersey connected Monday.
Authorities said the illness happened astatine astir 11:15 a.m. There were 27 radical wrong the gathering astatine the clip but nary 1 was importantly injured.
ROOF COLLAPSE REPORTED AT BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB DUE TO FLOODING IN NEW JERSEY
Flooding wrong BJ's Wholesale Club successful Ocean Township, New Jersey, connected July 6, 2026.
(Monmouth County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)
Heavy rainfall flooded communities on the Jersey shore. Drone video shows neighborhoods atrocious subdivisions successful Deal and Asbury Park wholly inundated.
Flash flooding inundated parts of New York's Long Island, wherever drivers navigated flooded roads to permission their neighborhoods and immoderate vehicles became stranded successful precocious water.
Severe storms battered the portion crossed the July 4 vacation weekend, opening precocious Friday afternoon, starring to the cancellation of immoderate outdoor celebrations.
Powerful upwind gusts took down trees and powerfulness lines, with astir 1 cardinal customers without powerfulness astatine the highest of the storms implicit the vacation weekend.
Riverhead, N.Y.: Homeowners cleanable debris extracurricular their Corwin Street location successful Riverhead, New York connected July 5, 2026, wherever beardown winds damaged their fence.
((Photo by James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images) / FOX Weather)
Heavy rainfall Sunday prompted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to pass radical surviving successful basement apartments to beryllium acceptable to evacuate. The metropolis opened nationalist schools to service arsenic shelters precocious Sunday.
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