Heavy Rains, Flash Floods Could Loom The 4th Of July Celebrations

Forecasters warn the public that there will be heavy rains and possible flash floods on the holiday weekend in some areas across the nation. According to a report, there was a severe weather hovering the Midwest on Sunday. The storms will reach eastward into the mid-Atlantic on Monday. This might affect the Fourth of July festivities.

The National Weather Service stated that a potential flash flooding was heading from Kansas and Missouri overnight into the central Plains and Ohio Valley on Sunday. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, about 1 to 2 inches of rain an hour was assumed to hit the said state as reported by NBC News.

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There are also flood watches in parts of the central and mid-Mississippi Valley. This includes St. Louis and Kansas City, according to the Weather Channel. There will be also heavy rains that might hit West Virginia on Monday.

According to AccuWeather, the heaviest rain would likely fall from northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska to central Indiana. Steve Travis, a meteorologist from AccuWeather said that heavy rain and thunderstorms will bring flash flooding to eastern Kansas and northern and central Missouri through Sunday morning. He further said that the threat for flooding will shift eastward from northern and central Missouri to central Indiana during Sunday and across the Ohio Valley on the Fourth of July.

According to NBC Washington, the heavy rains throughout Monday could defer the fireworks on the National Mall for the first time in history.

On the other hand, AccuWeather stated that the rainfall might be beneficial in some drought-stricken areas in the Southeast .This includes northern Alabama and Georgia. The thunderstorms are assumed to wind down across the region the latter half of the week.