ST. LOUIS — Widespread rain across the St. Louis area has resulted in flash flood warnings in portions of the St. Louis area Wednesday morning.
Flash flood warnings were issued for Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Pike and Warren counties. The warnings in Lincoln and Pike counties are set to expire at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, and the warnings in Franklin, Gasconade and Warren counties expire at 10:30 a.m.
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Wednesday afternoon afternoon and evening, we could have a few stronger storms around mainly south of the metro St. Louis area.
The best risk for severe storms looks to be mainly south of St. Louis and areas southward.
While most of the storms look to just put down some heavy rainfall, there could be a couple of storms that produce damaging wind gusts. That will be the main risk as the storms move through on Wednesday afternoon and evening.
On the Fourth of July, areas of rain and storms will linger. We all have storm chances early on the 4th of July and late evening. Likely dry weather returns Friday through the weekend.
Thursday's severe weather chances aren't as clear. Rain and thunder will be ongoing as the day starts. The morning rain and thunder is expected to diminish toward lunchtime. More thunderstorms may develop during the evening as a cold front approaches from the west. The timing of the storms may impact some fireworks displays with the best chance of rain by 9pm and afterwards. Only spotty storms are expected before that, during the day, mainly west of St. Louis.
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