Flash flooding is occurring in the usual areas around the Richmond region today in the wake of heavy rains overnight.

Drivers should be on alert for ponding along low-lying roads.

Richmond firefighters and police officers received a scare shortly before 8 a.m. when they responded to a call of a vehicle overturned in a rain-swollen ditch along Norborne Road in the city’s Broad Rock area. It turns out the vehicle had been stolen in Chesterfield and dumped along Norborne.

Even though the heaviest rains have moved to the east and north, well past the Richmond region, the National Weather Service says more thunderstorms are still possible today, especially through the morning hours.

By 7 a.m., all tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings in Virginia had expired, and a tornado watch for much of central and eastern Virginia expired at 9 a.m.

Elsewhere, between 50 and 60 homes in the England Run North subdivision area of Stafford County were damaged when a storm rolled through about 10:30 p.m. last night, Stafford Fire and Rescue spokesman Lt. Mark Stone said.

Pieces of roofs and walls were strewn about the streets. No homes were leveled, but clothes hanging in closets could be seen from the street in some of them.

Dozens of residents were taken to a temporary shelter.

The weather service planned to visit the area today to determine if the damage was caused by heavy winds or a tornado.

There also were unconfirmed reports of a tornado in the Triangle area in Prince William County last night.

— Staff And Wire Reports