The Met Office have issued a yellow weather warning of rain for most of the UK including Nottinghamshire and the Midlands.
The warning is issued for 3am tomorrow (Wednesday June 21) morning and will last until 6am on Thursday (June 22) morning.
Thunderstorms are expected to break out over Notts from late Wednesday onwards into Wednesday night, leading to torrential downpours, frequent lightning and a chance of hail.
The Met Office have said it could lead to some disruption, including sudden localised flooding and lightning potentially disrupting power supplies.
However the weather forecasters say many places will likely see little or no impacts.
The chief forecaster’s assessment said: “Rain over northern England early on Wednesday may locally lead to 20mm or 30mm of rain falling in one or two hours.
“Thunderstorms developing from late Wednesday afternoon bring a greater threat of severe weather with associated torrential downpours giving as much as 30mm or possibly 40mm in an hour in places.
“Note that areas of severe weather are not expected to occur at the same time across the whole warning area.
“Instead, the threat of heavy rain and thunder is initially confined to parts of northern England before the threat of severe weather becomes more extensive late Wednesday.”
