Blasts of rain pelted the area Wednesday night with the official gauge measuring more than 3 inches.

Runoff caused street flooding and at least one motorist, Teri Burch, was washed off Paxton Road and trapped in her vehicle in a ditch. Authorities said the 21-year-old was not injured.

More rain could come today, said Christopher Bannon, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Jackson, with the peak hours for another stormy summer downpour between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

&#8220After 4, it should dissipate fairly rapidly and it should be pretty clear by midnight,” Bannon said. The forecast for Friday calls for partly cloudy skies during the day and clearing skies by nightfall.

The Vicksburg Water Treatment Plant at the E.W. Haining Industrial Center recorded 3.12 inches in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. today, with most of it falling around 7 p.m. Another gauge, located at Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport at Mound, measured 1.39 inches during the same period.

That’s consistent with what Bannon described as the result of moist Gulf of Mexico air moving north and colliding with a cool front moving south.

Crop farmers had been short of precipitation, with 2 inches recorded for all of June and 3 inches being the average. Some rain also fell on Tuesday.

Today, the E-911 Dispatch Office received five reports of downed trees. Three in the city were on Locust and Speed streets and on Confederate Avenue. Two in the county were on Tucker and Redwood roads.

Limbs were also down across the area.