A day after hundreds of flights were canceled up and down the Eastern Seaboard, residents and officials assessed the damage from powerful storms that flooded roads and halted travel.

In Bow, New Hampshire, dozens of firefighters responded to a fire at the 186-year-old Crossroads Community Church after its steeple was struck by lightning, according to WMUR.com. The building was damaged, though not destroyed, and the fire was extinguished after 40 minutes, the report added.

"I was the first one to arrive here, and the flames were shooting about 75 feet out of the top of the church," Bow Fire Chief Mitchell Harrington told WMUR. "No one was in the church at the time. Calls came in from our neighbors."

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No injuries were reported, and the church's pastor said Sunday services will continue for the 25 parishioners while repairs are made, WMUR also reported.

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Airports in the Northeast struggled through delays that were hours long in some instances.

The worst-impacted airport was Newark Liberty International Airport, where delays averaged over five hours Tuesday evening, according to the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center. John F. Kennedy International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Airport each experienced delays of more than five hours Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly 2,500 U.S. flights were canceled Tuesday, most of which were due to the weather in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, according to FlightAware. Most of those airports had recovered by Wednesday morning.

A strong cold front sliced through a humid air mass in the Northeast Tuesday afternoon and evening. Ahead of that front, several bands of thunderstorms developed from New England southward into the mid-Atlantic states, slowing travel for the evening rush hour along the busy Interstate 95 corridor.

Severe storms produced scattered damaging wind gusts, knocking down some trees and power lines from southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts to Maryland Tuesday afternoon.

Localized flash flooding due to heavy rainfall was also reported in some areas. Multiple water rescues had to be performed near Pottstown, Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service.

A funnel cloud was spotted over the New York Harbor as a strong thunderstorm swept across Lower Manhattan.

This funnel cloud was also seen from Brooklyn, as shared on Twitter by a local resident. The funnel did not reach the ground, and therefore, it was not a tornado or a waterspout, according to the local NWS office.

The NWS reported that portions of FDR Drive northbound in Manhattan were closed because of flash flooding late Tuesday afternoon.

Commuters shared photos on social media of flooded subway stations in New York City during the Tuesday afternoon rush hour after heavy rainfall from the storms.

Farther south, Washington D.C. picked up 2.63 inches of rain in just an hour during Tuesday afternoon's storms.

As a result, part of the George Washington Parkway was closed near Reagan National Airport, where 20-plus vehicles were seen with water up to their doors.

At least one Metro subway station in Washington D.C. was also flooded, the Washington Post reported.

The Boston area also dealt with some localized areas of flash flooding Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Boston Logan International Airport had received 2.61 inches of rainfall as of Tuesday evening, the highest one-day precipitation total for the city since Sept. 30, 2015.

A confirmed EF0 tornado downed numerous trees and power lines in Ashford, Connecticut, Tuesday afternoon, according to the Hartford Courant. A survey crew from the NWS confirmed the twister was in progress for one minute and had maximum wind speeds of 85 mph.

Brian Donegan is a meteorologist at weather.com. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.