(KLZA)-- A Flood Watch continues for a large portion of our listening area.  The affected area includes Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and southwest Iowa through late Friday night.

The watch includes Richardson, Pawnee, Johnson, Nemaha, Gage and Otoe counties in Southeast Nebraska.

In northeast Kansas, the Flood Watch includes the counties of Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, and Riley.

Missouri counties included in the Flood Watch are Atchison, Holt, Buchanan, Daviess, De Kalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Nodaway, and Worth.

Through late tonight the forecast calls for occasional rounds of showers and thunderstorms with the potential for heavy rainfall.  Additional rainfall of one to three inches are possible, which would put storm total rains from Thursday through Friday night in the 2.5 to 5 inch range.     
 
 Flooding of low-lying area, urban areas and eventually rivers and streams could result.

Conditions could lead to strong to potentially severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds and possibly hail. While the threat for tornadoes is low, an isolated and brief tornado will be possible in southeast Nebraska early Friday evening.