Tornado Warning: Queens Warned Until 2 p.m. as Tornado Watch 705 Covers New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania Until 7 p.m.

NEW YORK — The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Queens County until 2 p.m. ET on Thursday as a fast-moving storm system crossed the Tri-State area, bringing heavy rain, possible hail, gusty winds and localized flooding. A tornado watch is also in effect for parts of New Jersey until 7 p.m., and a Special Marine Warning covered New York Harbor and the coastal waters from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, to Fire Island Inlet, Long Island, until 1:45 p.m.

The wider watch is Tornado Watch 705, issued by the Storm Prediction Center at 12:50 p.m. ET and in effect until 7 p.m. ET. It covers New Jersey counties including Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, Somerset and Warren; New Castle County in Delaware; and Pennsylvania counties including Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia, along with adjacent coastal waters including Delaware Bay.

Delaware saw its own warning Thursday afternoon: the Weather Service warned northeastern New Castle County until 1:45 p.m. after a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Stanton at 1:11 p.m., moving east at 20 mph. The warned area included Wilmington, Pennsville, Elsmere, New Castle, Newport, Wilmington Manor, Stanton, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, Bellefonte, Edgemoor and Brookside, and the county was also under a severe thunderstorm warning until 2:15 p.m.

Forecasters rated the severe threat highest south of the I-78 corridor in New Jersey, at Level 2 of 5, with the five boroughs and Nassau County in a Level 1 risk zone. No tornado touchdown was confirmed in the reports read as this story was filed, and the desk claims none. For Austin readers: neither Austin nor any part of Texas is inside Watch 705 or any of Thursday's warnings — the city's own forecast, filed separately by the Weather Desk this cycle, is clear and dry.