The watch was issued for Grande Ronde Valley, Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon, Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon, John Day Basin, Ochoco-John Day Highlands, East Slopes of the Oregon Cascades and Central Oregon as well as Wallowa County.

On Thursday at 2:09 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning in effect until 6:15 p.m. for Delaware County. "At 2:09 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area.

For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency management director conceded that he was sick and asleep as the water rose to historic levels on the Guadalupe River.

Flash flood warnings have been declared for parts of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland amid forecasts for severe thunderstorms and heavy rain Thursday. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and her acting counterpart in New Jersey said they were declaring states of emergency for areas facing the threat of extreme flash floods forecast on Thursday for much of the Eastern Seaboard.

New York City and New Jersey are under states of emergencies as torrential rain pounds the Northeast on Thursday afternoon. A level 3 out of 4 threat for flash flooding is in effect in New York City,

Storms and torrential rain soaked the tristate area on Thursday, triggering dangerous flash flooding that inundated basements, roads and New York City’s lifeline: the subway