Severe weather is possible in parts of the East today after striking the storm-weary Midwest with damaging tornadoes and a morning derecho.

Happening now

Severe thunderstorms and flooding rainfall are affecting parts of the Appalachians and Ohio Valley this morning.

Damaging winds are a threat with a line of storms moving through West Virginia headed into western Virginia.

Overnight, trees were downed, some onto homes, and at least one commercial building was damaged in Florence, Kentucky, just southwest of Cincinnati from what the National Weather Service is calling a "possible tornado".

Water rescues and some flooding of buildings was reported in the northern Cincinnati metro after overnight heavy rain.

You can see where the strongest storms are in the map below. Any active watches and warnings are also plotted on that map.

Wednesday's recap

A line of severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds known as a derecho raked through parts of Iowa and Illinois Wednesday morning.

Five separate wind gusts of 75 mph or higher were clocked in Iowa, including a 94 mph gust near Marshalltown, where a machine shed was heavily damaged.

Elsewhere in Iowa, high winds peeled metal roofs and flipped a trailer near Pella, and a tree was downed on a home in Mediapolis. A wind gust of 78 mph was measured at the Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport early Wednesday morning.

In Illinois, widespread tree damage was reported across northern Warren County, a roof was blown off in Monmouth and a funeral home was damaged in Williamsfield.

Following the morning derecho, severe thunderstorms redeveloped primarily from Missouri to Illinois and southern Indiana.

Damaging tornadoes struck near Effingham and near Mattoon, Illinois, Wednesday evening. Damage in Blue Mound, Illinois, also appears to have been from a tornado.

Other tornadoes struck near Springfield's Capital Airport, Martinsville and Spencer, Indiana, and in Crawford County, Wisconsin.

National Weather Service damage survey teams will investigate these areas to determine tornado tracks and intensities in the coming days.

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Today's threat is in the East

Today, it's the East's turn, though likely with less intensity than what we witnessed in the Midwest yesterday.

Scattered severe thunderstorms are possible from parts of New England to the mid-Atlantic and Appalachians. The main threat is damaging wind gusts, but some hail and locally flooding rain is also possible.

The area with the best chance of severe weather is depicted by the darker orange contour in the map below.

That could include Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., though there is some uncertainty if any early day showers could erase the instability needed for scattered severe storms later in the day.

There is also a threat of a few tornadoes in parts of the Deep South associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur. Flooding rain is a bigger threat, there.

Busy June so far

There was a severe weather outbreak across these areas just last week, where over 1,700 storm reports occurred between June 7 and 12.

(MORE: Severe Outbreak June 7 -12)

Below is a map showing all of these. Unfortunately, there will likely be more for some of these already hard-hit places as the week rolls on.