Weekend thunderstorms target Ohio Valley, East Coast with pockets of torrential rain

Weekend thunderstorms target Ohio Valley, East Coast with pockets of torrential rain

Millions of people across the East Coast and Ohio Valley could see more strong thunderstorms Friday through Sunday, bringing pockets of torrential rain and a risk of flash flooding after storms swamped parts of the Northeast earlier this week. Rainfall rates could reach 2.5 inches an hour in the strongest cells. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has also issued a Level 2 out of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms beginning Friday afternoon across a corridor from the tip of southwestern Connecticut and New York's Lower Hudson Valley through eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey to the Delmarva. This includes the I-95 corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C.