"At 6:04 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area.

At 1:20 a.m. on Tuesday, the National Weather Service released a flash flood warning in effect until 4:15 a.m. for Ocean County.

In fact, we could see rainfall rates of up to 3 inches per hour with isolated rainfall totals of 3 to 5+ inches.

Torrential rain and thunderstorms are expected to threaten much of the eastern and central United States with flash flooding throughout the rest of this week, forecasters warned, as parts of the country,

Two people were killed in New Jersey during flash flooding as severe storms lashed the New York City area on Monday night into Tuesday, submerging cars and flooding subway stations.

The threat posed by flash floods around the world is only getting worse as climate change fuels more extreme weather, experts say.