By Nina Godlewski
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After several days of summer heat, rain is headed for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. The rain was set to start Tuesday afternoon and arrived right on schedule.
In New York City, the rain arrived with thunder and storm clouds. A flash flood watch, flood advisory, hazardous weather outlook and a special weather statement were all issued for New York City Tuesday afternoon by the National Weather Service.
Those warnings were repeated up and down the coastline for other cities and towns throughout the Northeast. Severe thunderstorm warnings were also issued for counties across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine. The NWS tweeted that those storms were "capable of damaging winds."
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A radar map from the NWS shows the strand of storms moving along the region as of 4 p.m. EDT.
Videos showed the rain moving into New York and Washington, D.C. The rain was pouring into the subway system in those locations, too. In New York, less than an inch of rain was expected to fall.
Additionally, a funnel cloud, the start of a tornado, formed in New York but the cloud never touched the water so it never became a full tornado, the NWS shared on Twitter.
Flights into and out of Newark Airport in New Jersey were delayed, and the airport was advising that flyers check with their airline before even going to the airport for their flight. Flights into and out of Reagan Airport in D.C. was also experiencing delays due to the storms.
Central Connecticut and Massachusetts also had multiple weather hazard warnings in effect Tuesday, as was the case in Boston. About an inch of rain was expected across those regions as well.
The rain was expected to clear up by Wednesday morning in most places where the conditions would turn to sun again before more rain was forecast for the weekend and early next week.
The rains and flooding in the northeast and mid-Atlantic were just the latest flooding to hit the U.S. Four flash flood warnings were issued over a five-day span in Zion National Park, where there were rock falls happening. There were also flash floods in the Grand Canyon as well, according to USA Today.
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