UPDATE: As of Thursday morning, thousands of households remain without power in the Rochester region, including over 2,500 in Monroe County and more than 3,000 in Wayne County.
Webster has the highest number of outages by far in Monroe County, according to the RG&E website.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and tonight.
WXXI meteorologist Josh Nichols said some may be severe with heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and hail.
"And I wouldn't be shocked if there was an isolated tornado," he said.
Flash flooding is also a possibility, with more than an inch of rain expected in some spots.
Nichols said the expected time frame to watch for the bulk of the storms is between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m.
There was a widespread tornado watch issued by National Weather Service that was in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.
The watch covered 29 counties, including Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Genesee, Wayne and Wyoming.
