CLEVELAND — A Flood Watch has been issued for most of Northeast Ohio from 8 p.m. Wednesday until 8 a.m. Sunday as the National Weather Service in Cleveland says “several rounds of showers and storms will impact the region” with heavy rainfall.

“Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams and other low-lying and flood-prone locations,” according to the NWS.

These are the counties included in the Flood Watch:

• Ashland
• Carroll
• Coshocton
• Cuyahoga
• Erie
• Holmes
• Huron
• Lorain
• Medina
• Ottawa
• Richland
• Sandusky
• Seneca
• Stark
• Summit
• Tuscarawas
• Wayne

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Hours before the Flood Watch was issued Tuesday, 3News Senior Meteorologist Matt Wintz discussed the flooding concerns in his extended weather forecast video on our YouTube page while noting it “could be some of the heaviest rain we’ve had in years around here in northern Ohio.”

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It starts with rain and storms Wednesday into Thursday.

“Friday it looks like we catch a little break, and then this boundary comes back as a warm front and it sits right over the Buckeye State,” Wintz explained. “So that means we have rounds of rain that will be through here on Saturday, some embedded thunderstorms as well. Another round of rain and storms possible on Sunday. … And that really is going to add up some rainfall totals around here.”

Wintz said Northeast Ohio will be in the range of getting 3-6 inches of rain.

“That’s a lot of rainfall, folks. In the summertime when you get 3-6 inches, you get it in a thunderstorm. So it’s localized. That rain water spreads out. If you get it over all of northern Ohio, that means every river and creek is filling up. That’s where we have some problems. So just a heads up on that. That flood threat is for real this weekend.”