Rounds of severe thunderstorms continue across the Northeast and the Rockies this weekend

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Severe storms are firing up across many parts of the U.S., leading to damaging hail and flash flooding.

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00:00So a lot going on and overall the weekend forecast is going to hold the heat.

00:03Our heat wave persists for the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic states.

00:07Now the northwestern edge of this is going to get chomped down a bit as we step into Sunday

00:13with the front making more progress east, but there are some thunderstorms in tow.

00:17In fact, the thunderstorms will precede the cool down in most cases.

00:20We'll have some scattered storms into the Great Basin, the Four Corners region,

00:23and then also a little farther southwest. It's going to be a hot time out there.

00:27Our top story takes us to the northeast where we're seeing some strong storms

00:30rolling through Massachusetts and here look at this in Agawam, Massachusetts.

00:35We're dealing with a pretty active scene there. The wind, the rain, visibility was down a bit

00:42as well and we are dealing with an ongoing threat here in some of these areas here of

00:46southern New England regarding some strong thunderstorms and we've been watching for

00:51some trouble here in other areas like Norwalk, Connecticut. Here's the current view in Norwalk

00:55and overall the risk is there for some more flash flooding.

00:59Some parts of Connecticut have seen flash flooding now.

01:01We had a flash flood warning for Hartford that has just expired.

01:04Other areas to the east still.

01:06Windom County, Connecticut under a flash flood warning in the southern end of the county

01:11from Windom east to the Rhode Island line.

01:14And there is a new severe thunderstorm warning until 7.30 for New London County.

01:18Basically from New London east to the state line there right up to near Westerly there

01:25and along the Rhode Island line there.

01:28Farther west we've been watching some storms.

01:30This one weekend as it moved into Binghamton you had a severe thunderstorm warning.

01:34Initially that storm is not as intense as it once was.

01:37But farther west you can see some strong storms moving into areas around Lake St. Clair

01:41up near the area of Stirling Heights in Richmond, Michigan near Sarnia there in western Ontario.

01:46And then also we had been mentioning and I mentioned how unimpressive this one area

01:51of rotation became as new development just kind of competed with the circulation of this

01:57storm here near the area of Raven in the area of northwestern parts, well at least north

02:04central parts of Nebraska.

02:06That tornado warning has indeed been allowed to expire and for good reason.

02:09There's not much rotation left there anymore.

02:11But there is still some rotation with this cell approaching Emmitsburg in Iowa and we're

02:16going to switch over to the high res radar data.

02:18Admittedly from a bit of a distance off to the northwest but at least we can scan the

02:22upper part of the atmosphere and we're still seeing that red against green.

02:25So there is still some spin and there is an area of rotation here for Palo Alto County

02:30of Iowa and that runs until 6.15 central time.

02:34So about 12 more minutes on that tornado warning for now.

02:37Many areas up and down the Rockies have been dealing with some severe weather too.

02:41In fact we're going to go all the way up into parts of Montana and some nasty storms

02:45have been on the map up in northern parts of Montana here.

02:48Classic signs of summer with some hail up into Brady, Montana.

02:52Dime size there and other reports into central parts of the state here.

02:56Two inch diameter hail in Hobson in Judith Basin County and then farther south.

03:01Our main concern here into northeastern Colorado is large hail and damaging wind.

03:05Tony Laubach is on this cell and he is approaching and probably into Colorado by now.

03:12He was leaving Kimball and heading south when we last checked in with him.

03:15And looking at that cell with some large hail potential within that storm.

03:20It's a severe thunderstorm worn cell for eastern Weld County

03:23and moving into Logan County of Colorado now.

03:25And as we put the pieces back together with the radar, you can see we're dealing with

03:29some ongoing severe thunderstorms in southern Colorado over to Sangre de Cristo mountains

03:33in some spots and also into the valley floor there near Alamosa.

03:37A little relief from the heat for some there on the valley floor.

03:40And also some flash flood concerns are on the map in recent burn scar areas.

03:44Even this week's most recent fire near Ruidoso.

03:47This is your second significant round of showers and rain since that fire broke out.

03:52So that's certainly helpful but there is always the risk of flash flooding.

03:55And a lot of flash flood threats farther north as the Hermit's Peak and Calf Canyon

03:59fire from a couple of years ago.

04:00That burn scar area also at risk of flash flooding.

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