Sarah Willets | The Robesonian By 6 p.m. on Tuesday, some Lumberton streets, like the intersection of Cedar Street and Elizabethtown Road, were already under water because of a thunderstorms that rolled through the county throughout the afternoon and into the night.

LUMBERTON — Farmers across Robeson County should reap the rewards of the a series of thunderstorms that brought as many as 2 inches of isolated rainfall Tuesday.

“We absolutely needed it,” said Mac Malloy, field crops agent for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s Robeson County Center. “The forecast shows temperatures climbing into the mid-90s in the coming few days, and the moisture in the ground is really going to help that situation — especially with the corn crop.”

The rain comes at a critical time for corn, which has reached a stage of its growth cycle where moisture is at “peak demand,” according to Malloy.

“There are probably not many farmers in Robeson County who don’t have corn in their rotation somewhere,” he said.

Malloy listed soybeans and cotton as other crops that will benefit from the soaking.

The storms provided the most rain reported in Robeson County since “early May,” according to Dave Loewenthal, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

“It was a pretty good rainfall,” he said.

A receptionist at the Highway Patrol office said she wasn’t aware of any accidents caused by the storms. A couple of town officials across Robeson County said they were not aware of any outages or damages.

“There have been no issues here, as far as we can tell this morning,” said Tim Mauldin, director of Public Works in Red Springs. “We were glad to see the rain and we’re good to go.”

J.R. Steigerwald, town administrator for St. Pauls, said that little evidence of the thunderstorms remained this morning.

“There have been no reports of problems,” Steigerwald said. “Even most of the puddles that stick around after a storm are gone. I think St. Pauls got more noise than rain.”

There was plenty of street flooding that subsided pretty quickly, but people got out in the streets and many of them posted photos to Facebook.

But more rain than noise might be on the horizon. Today’s forecast calls for a 50 percent chance of precipitation, with a high of 91 degrees. Thursday’s forecast also includes a 50 percent chance of precipitation, but with a slightly higher high of 92 degrees.