5pm update: Potential for hail later in the day

We just saw that storm cell that did bring the hail over towards Allentown, New Jersey. This is the one we're watching here. It's making its way eastward across the state. I actually want to zoom in on it because it is looking pretty nasty in and around the Howell area, just south of Marlboro, too. You can see the cloud-to-ground lightning being indicated here and the darker shaded tones. I'm actually going to stop the radar here and just show you where we see the darker shaded tones just west of Wall Township in New Jersey. This is looking pretty nasty. This is where we could have the potential for some quarter-sized hail. Some downpours, cloud-to-ground lightning, and this is all moving eastward here. In fact, I'm going to actually project it out for you. I know it's moving east at about 20 miles per hour. So if we take it out just a little bit here, we can see some of the towns that are about to be affected. It will be walled, as I just mentioned, at about 525. This cell will be heading towards Spring Lake, Belmar, Neptune City. This is actually a very lovely part of the Jersey Shore. In fact, one of my favorite areas of the Jersey Shore. Spring Lake Heights at about 534, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley. Beach at about 536, Asbury Park, 537, and that's where you can expect to have the cloud of ground lightning in those areas, as well as the heavy downpours and the possibility of hail, as I mentioned here. So I'm going to go back out just a little bit here, actually take this part off. We'll actually move this a bit here, and I'm going to clear that out and show that we still have heavy rainfall in parts of the region here. Let's go out towards Long Island. We can see out on the east end here some pockets of heavy rain happening near the Hamptons. I don't know why this is a click in here. Let's just go right here and I'll show you. Yeah, so near the Hamptons, we're getting some heavy rainfall happening here from about East Hampton, starting around South Hampton, heading towards East Hampton and all the way out towards Montauk Point. Some very heavy rainfall happening. Now, no lightning strikes associated here. So I guess that's some good news. Not quite as intense as we're experiencing in parts of New Jersey here. And we also see that line extended further north, as I just pointed out, and that part of New Jersey also up towards here into the northeastern part. A lot of folks will be commuting here as we move along shortly in the next hour or so. They're probably already driving out on I-80 and 278. So right now you're experiencing some very heavy rainfall. Also out at Newark Liberty Airport. Not sure of the status right now at the airport, but I'm sure they're having some massive delays happening there. This is all moving eastward, too. If I actually put this out just a little bit. Let's put it out further. Let's see now. We can see it's all moving from the west to east here. So we are anticipating the heavy rain to move into the five boroughs. of New York City shortly. Between 5 and 6 o'clock was our original projection. That looks like it's panning out here as everything is moving eastward. So we're expecting heavy rain around this vicinity here. Now moving through Staten Island, heading over towards Manhattan now. The southern tip is starting to get some rainfall. Brooklyn too. Earlier in the Rockaways, we had reports of over three inches of rainfall here. So flash flooding also an issue across parts of the area. I want to take you actually to some of the warnings and watches. We have a tornado watch for the area Shaded in yellow here, that's associated. Associated with that cell that I just showed you crossing 195, that still has the potential to produce a tornado. So they have that watch in effect until about seven o'clock. We have a severe thunderstorm warning associated with that exact same cell I just showed you. I believe this goes until about six o'clock. Yeah, six o'clock for Monmouth County and a lot of the counties associated with this area, too. Now we also have flash flood warnings in the area shaded in green here. That's because of the flooding that occurred earlier in and around Allentown. We showed you the video of the hail there. This is from the flooding. That happened earlier with the three-inch amounts, actually greater than three-inch amounts in this part of Queens here and Brooklyn, too, and so we have more rain headed in that direction, so they're going to have some major problems there. Interestingly enough, I was looking at the wider scope here, we also have a winter weather advisory that's going to be going into effect at 7 o'clock off to the north. It's kind of an interesting contrast here from having a tornado watch and a winter weather advisory. We don't see that very common taking place at the same time. They both go, one ends at 7, the other one starts at 7, but this is Indicative of a nor'easter that is plaguing the area. And that's why we're seeing all of these watches and warnings being put into place here. So look at the future cast shows on the backside of the system. We're going to see a change over to snow. And that's why we have that winter weather advisory in effect off to the north.