Gusty thunderstorms dumped rain and hail on parts of the Front Range and through the eastern plains on Wednesday, causing flash flood conditions in some areas.

The National Weather Service offices in Boulder and Pueblo were kept busy Wednesday, issuing a combined 29 severe thunderstorm and three flash flood warnings by 8 p.m. Hours earlier, forecasters issued a severe thunderstorm watch for 27 counties encompassing nearly every county from the Front Range to the state’s eastern border.

Around 6:30 p.m., meteorologists warned of a thunderstorm with 60 mph winds and quarter-sized hail that could impact 1.65 million people across Arvada, Aurora, Centennial and Denver.

Thursday will be “overall, pretty similar” to Wednesday in southeastern Colorado, Mike Garberglio, a NWS Pueblo meteorologist, wrote in an evening forecast discussion. Those conditions could even possibly bring a “strong to marginally severe” thunderstorm in the Pikes Peak region.

Flash flooding concerns lingered Wednesday in the Aspen Acres burn scar and will remain on Thursday amid more atmospheric instability in the mountains and drier conditions in the eastern plains.

Forecasters in Pueblo also issued flash flood warnings on Wednesday northeast of Walsenburg and the rural 24 burn scar along Colorado 115 across El Paso, Fremont and Pueblo counties.

Through the rest of the work week, southeastern Colorado will become drier and warmer before slight chances of storms through the weekend, according to the Weather Service.