{"id":330734,"date":"2026-08-27T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330734\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:25:00","slug":"storms-bring-threat-of-tornadoes-flooding-and-hail-to-tri-state-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330734\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms bring threat of tornadoes, flooding and hail to tri-state \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has proved to be a blockbuster storm season in the tri-state area, yet another round of severe weather is set to slice through the region Thursday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Atmospheric moisture will spike on Thursday ahead of a cold front. Showers may develop as early as the morning, but strong to severe storms are expected to hold off until later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A flood watch is set to go into effect for part of the tri-state beginning at noon Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-severe-weather-risk-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-flood-watch-map-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-rain-timeline.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heavy downpours could drop rain at rates of two or more inches per hour, which could lead to isolated flash flooding.\u00a0Most areas in the tri-state will receive under two inches of rain total, but localized areas where the strongest storms develop could pick up as much as 5 or more inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highest risk for flash flooding will be in the New York City Metro Area westward into Central New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-acumulation-forecast-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the flood threat, severe storms could produce damaging straight line wind, hail and even a tornado or two.\u00a0These storms are most likely from Central and North Jersey extending up into the Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest storms will be from mid-afternoon through early to mid-evening on Thursday before rain chances diminish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-tornado-risk-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-damaging-wind-risk-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-26-hail-risk-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what has proved to be a blockbuster storm season in the tri-state area, yet another round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,335,806,336,133],"class_list":["post-330734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc-weather","tag-severe-weather","tag-storm-team-4","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}