NOTTS: Met Office severe weather warning
The Met Office has issued a severe weather for heavy rain and the risk of localised flooding on Thursday for the East Midlands, including Nottinghamshire.
The yellow alert runs from 5am until 9pm and is due to areas of heavy and locally thundery rain which are expected to move north and west across England
The warning says that scattered locally heavy showers, with the risk of some slow-moving thundery downpours, are likely to develop quite quickly during Thursday, only slowly dying out in the evening..
Forecaster say the public should be aware of the risk of localised flooding.