{"id":770841,"date":"2026-07-18T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770841\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:08","slug":"live-updates-tornado-risk-for-nj-nyc-as-severe-storms-threaten-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770841\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Tornado risk for NJ, NYC as severe storms threaten \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to KnowThe severe weather threat facing the NYC area has intensified. We’re looking at a high chance of flash floods and tornadoes. 65 mph+ winds are expected to cause damage.Heavy downpours could lead to flash flooding, especially in coastal and low-lying areas. Isolated higher rainfall amounts are possible.Overall, in terms of severe weather risk, the National Weather Service puts much of the tri-state at a level 3 on a scale of 5. Hail is also possible with this system.The strongest thunderstorms are projected to impact the Poconos, Catskills, and New Jersey; that’s where we see the greatest tornado and straight-line wind risk. Severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings are widespread.Those most at risk of flooding will be in North\/Central New Jersey through Metro New York City, Long Island, and coastal Connecticut. The storms blow out the Canadian wildfire smoke that has choked the tri-state in recent days. A cold front clears the system ahead of Sunday’s World Cup final.<\/p>\n

A vigorous storm system<\/a> impacting much of the northeastern United States is bringing strong-to-severe thunderstorms to the NYC area from late morning through the afternoon into the evening.<\/p>\n

Multiple threats are on the table, including a high chance of isolated tornadoes <\/a>and flash flooding. Damaging straight-line wind is extremely likely. Track the latest weather developments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowThe severe weather threat facing the NYC area has intensified. We’re looking at a high chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,202641,202642,21,19,22,20,25,24,2986],"class_list":["post-770841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-nyc-weather","tag-storm-team-4","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}