Heavy rain in forecast for this afternoon

The Wood County Emergency Management Agency  has issued the following advisory:

We have a potential heavy rain this afternoon (June 6) and ending tomorrow morning.  Currently, the rain is forecasted to begin around 2pm with a chance of thunderstorms through the evening hours and early overnight hours.   Wood County could see 1” to 1.5” of rain.   Our area is forecasted at a marginal risk for thunderstorm activity. 

What to expect: 

* Showers and thunderstorms are expected across the area late this afternoon through tonight. 

* Thunderstorms may produce isolated damaging wind gusts and locally heavy rain that may lead to localized flooding in urban and poor drainage areas. 

* Best chance of stronger thunderstorms will be across northwestern Ohio and the best chance of localized flooding will be along and west of the I-71 corridor.

The latest forecast for your location can be found by clicking on the map at www.weather.gov/cle.

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