Thanks so much for joining us tonight.
As we continue to stay weather aware here,
we join you of course just a few
hours after the last time we
were on the air with you, Brad,
tracking those tornado warnings
that began just before six.
They ran through about 8:30.
We started to see the some of ts
rotation and storms around 4:00 o'clock,
but then by about 5:00 o'clock
we started getting reports of a
funnel cloud overlake Norman.
And then they started piling in.
The warning started coming out.
But what's amazing is when you
look at all of these videos.
You see a lot of funnel clouds.
I mean, it looks like it's
touching the ground,
but it's hard to tell from some of these.
And we had no damage at the sur,
so we clearly had rotating funnl
clouds out there.
But we don't know if we had any confirmed
touchdowns based on the lack of damage,
right? And you know, this video
is taken around 8:00 PM from eat
Mecklenburg County looking towas
the Metrolina Greenhouses there.
You were talking about that
in our earlier reports,
around six o'clock, 7:00, o'clo.
So here's what we know so far.
We saw three different storms
this evening producing 3
different funnel clouds. Yeah.
And so the first one,
as Brad alluded to just now,
appeared overlake Norman.
And then we saw the second
one near Mooresville,
and then the third in that Sky
Brook area of Huntersville.
So we are looking at some video
that many of you at home sent in
capturing those first and third storm
specifically is what we see her.
The things we're still trying to
figure out whether any of these
funnel clouds actually touched ,
did they become tornadoes,
did they cause damage?
Yeah,
it's great questions right in.
Along with these tornado warnin,
much of our area is now under fh
flood warnings to the risk will
grow higher as the week goes ono
we have video here captured with
our Kannapolis cameras showing
you some heavy rain that moved
through the area over the last.
Couple of hours.
Several inches of rain fell
over some of the parts too.
Yeah. So on that note, of course
flooding is going to be a big concern.
We really want to stress the ury
of knowing this risk and being prepared
for it because the overnight hos
sounds like this is going to be crucial.
And we'll remember not too longo
that flash flooding that killed 5 people
at the Head Night family campgr.
This is video we're seeing from that area.
This is from 2020,
a one year old boy among others.
Died in this. So just important reminder,
stay prepared,
stay safe and weather aware of course.
Yeah,
especially as we get into the overnight
hours because as we mentioned, we had
three storms that produce funnel clouds.
Well, those storms also dumped a lot of rain
in fact when we look at the storm reports.
We don't have any reports of dae
from wind or from those tornado.
Some of the wind damage on the map is
from the storms earlier in the .
But we do have a report of flash flooding
on the east side of Mooresville and that's
going to be something we'll watch overnight
because these areas were satura.
And look, there is more rain developing
tonight that will pivot through.
I want to show you some of
the rainfall totals.
This is just since midnight last night,
this area around Mooresville,
into Rowan County,
northwestern Cabarrus County,
northern Mecklenburg County,
yeah, some areas.
Is 4 to 7 inches of rain
in the last 24 hours.
And as we go to the South,
we've got a little axis of heavy
rain from East Charlotte all thy
down to Pineville Matthews aread
then into Indian land and Rock .
That's what we've seen, some very heavy rain.
So the ground is saturating those spots.
So any rain that falls tonight
on these areas could produce
additional flash flooding.
You can see we've got a couple
flood advisories and flash
flood warnings in effect.
These are both in effect
through the morning hours.
Because the ground is saturated,
it will not take much rain
to cause additional flooding
during the overnight hours.
This low pressure system giving us the rain,
it's not moving anytime soon.
In fact,
we're going to see rain continue
tonight into tomorrow with
flash flood watches up for the
mountains and foothills coming .
We're going to show you the wavf
rain that will affect us Tuesda,
Wednesday and Thursday and whene
could see a break in this patten
coming up in that extended fore.
All right, Brad, we will see you again soon.
We again want to thank all
of our viewers who sent in
these photos and videos today.
You really helped us paint
the entire picture.
We could not have done it without you.
Here's some more video from
Lauren in Huntersville,
capturing the funnel clouds
from her perspective.
And really, just to give further props,
we know that Brad had suspicions about the
system before it even started to take a turn,
But you at home first tipped us off. Really.
Of what was really going on with the storms,
particularly we mentioned the
one that was Overlake Norman,
that funnel cloud that actually showed
us what we needed to start to look into.
This came in before the
actual warning came in.
So it really helped us bring
you urgent warning sooner.
So don't forget you can send us
your photos and videos pretty
easily using that near me funct.
It's on the WC&amp;C Charlotte mobile
app and just really with the top
of the finger comes right in.