FLORENCE COVERAGE FROM WXII 12 NEWS.
KIMBERLY: THIS POWERFUL STORM ABSOLUTELY DRENCHING PARTS OF THE COAST AND IT IS FAR FROM OVER.
YOU CAN SEE THE WIND RACING THROUGH THE TREES AND PARTS OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN ARE UNDERWATER.
DAVONTE: FLORENCE IS A CATEGORY ONE STORM BUT IT REMAINS FIERCE.
THE EYE IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO SHORE.
KIMBERLY: OUR TEAM IS TRACKING FLORENCE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US IN THE TRIAD.
BRIA WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS STO AND WE WILL SWITCH TO WHETHER ONE TO TALK ABOUT WITH THIS STORM IS NOW.
LANDFALL IS HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK.
THE EYEWALL IS BEGINNING TO MOVE ONSHORE AND IT IS NOT OFFICIALLY MAKING LANDFALL YET.
ONCE IT MOVES OVER LAND, WE WILL START TO CALL THE LANDFALL THAT WILL HAPPEN EARLY THIS MORNING.
THE STRONGEST WIN NOW GETTING TO MOVE ONSHORE AND VERY HEAVY RAINS INUNDATING THE SOUND ALONG THE COAST.
AND EVEN GOTTEN ABOVE 105 BEFORE MAKING A LOOK OUT.
THEY ARE GETTING ABSOLUTELY HAMMERED.
YOU CAN SEE THE DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER OF THAT STORM AND IT IS CURRENTLY A CAP ONE.
THE EYEWALL GOT A LITTLE RAGGED BUT HAS RAPIDLY STRENGTHENED.
SEEING SOME OF THE BEST CONVECTION WE HAVE SEEN ALONG THE STORM.
MAINTAINING ITS SPEED AND A LITTLE WOBBLY AS WE BEGIN TO MOVE CLOSER TO SHORE.
EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AS WE MOVE INLAND AND A WEEK OF RAIN THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA AND PORTIONS OF THE AREA FROM TIME TO TIME, LISTING TO THE NORTH.
RAINFALL WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THAT DEVELOPING.
WE HAVE SEEN A 10 FOOT INUNDATION OF WATER IN NEW BERN ALREADY.
HURRICANE WIND AT THE COAST WILL BE VERY STRONG AND DAMAGIN ESPECIALLY A LONG AND EAST OF I-95 ALONG WITH HIGHWAY ONE.
HEAVY RA THREAT, FIVE TO 10 INCHES ON AVERAGE.
SOME OF THAT RAIN IS ALREADY BEGINNING, STARTING TO MOVE INTO THE EASTERN COUNTIES.
WE WILL LET CARLY PICK IT UP THERE WITH MORE IN YOUR LOCAL FORECAST.
BRIAN: -- CARL A LITTLE BIT OF THAT ACTIVITY TO THE SOUTH.
ALL THE WAY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE AREA AND REALLY GETTING IT CUT IN HALF HERE.
IT KIND OF DEPENDS ON THE TIMING AND THE SET UP WITH THIS SYSTEM.
AND OFF TOWARDS THE NORTH, THAT IS WHERE WE SEE IT GO THROUGH TUESDAY.
WILL BRING WITH IT THAT SECOND ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN.
HERE IS A LOOK AT TH RAINFALL.
UPWARDS OF THREE TO FIVE, SEVEN AND A HALF OR WINSTON-SALEM.
EIGHT FOR GALAX.
OTHER MODELS SHOWING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
HERE IS ANOTHER MODEL SHOWING BY WEDNESDAY.
SEVEN THROUGH WINSTON-SALEM AND NINE DOWN TO ASHEBORO AND DOWN TO THE SOUTH HERE AS WELL.
THERE IS A BUG ATTACKING ME, SORRY.
AND FIVE TO 10 INCHES OF RAINFA AND WE HAV IT ISOLATED AS WELL.
WE GO THROUGH MONDAY AND TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK AND ALSO HAVE THE WI IMPACT THE GUSTING WIND.
SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.
WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED AND THE REST OF THE DETAILS IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
KIMBERLY TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES ON THE HOST.
DAVONTE: JARRED HILL IS LIVE, HOW ARE CONDITIONS THEIR?
JARRED: I COULD NOT HERE BECAUSE THE WIND REALLY STARTED TO PICK UP.
WE LIVE IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.
NOT NEAR THE WATER, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE WIND IS DEFINITELY PICKING UP.
I THINK ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO AGO, OUT HERE, AS I MENTIONED, THE BIG CONCERN IS WITH THE FLOODING.
THE STORM SURGES WELL AT THE FLOODING FROM THE RAIN IN PARTICULAR WITH THE CAPE FEAR RIVER.
WITH ALL THE RAIN WE ARE EXPECTING, SOME OF THE ESTIMATES HAVE BEEN UPWARDS O RAINFALL -- RIGHT NOW, I AM HEARING WE ARE IN THE EYEWALL OF THIS STORM.
A CATEGORY ONE STORM, THE WIND PICKING UP OUT HERE.
THEY ARE COMING OUT HERE WITHIN THE EYEWALL.
THIS STORM IS GOING RIGHT NOW.
I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYBODY OUT.
I DID SEE ONE TRUCK DRIVING THROUGH MAYBE 15 MINUTES OR SO AGO.
OTHERWISE, IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HEEDING THE WARNINGS NOT TO BE OUTSIDE.
WE DO HAVE A SAFE LOCATION THAT WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO.
FOR ANYBODY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, WE HAVE A REALLY SAFE LOCATION WHERE WE CAN GET AWAY IF THINGS GET PRETTY BAD.
THERE ARE SOME SOUNDS OF WILDLIFE OUT HERE.
IT IS KIND OF A FASCINATING THING TO SEE IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THIS.
WE CONTINUE TO KEEP AN EYE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING.
DAVONT YOU ARE IN THE EYEWALL, BUT IT HAS NOT MADE LANDFALL YET.
I KNOW BRIAN JUST TOOK THE DRINK OF WATER, BUT IF WE CAN GO TO BRIA, CLARIFY -- ACTUALLY, WE HAVE TO GET TO OUR NEXT REPORT FROM TRAVIS MACLE.
-- TRAVERS MACLE.
BRIAN: THE EYE IS THE CENTER OF TH STORM, THE CENTERPOINT ON THE STORM.
IN THE STORM DOES NOT MAKE LANDFALL UNTIL THE CENTER OF THE EYE MAKE ITS WAY ONSHORE.
IT IS THE STRONGEST PART OF THE STORM AND SOMETIMES THE HEAVIEST RAIN.
THAT IS MOVING TO THE COASTAL COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW.
DAVONTE: WE HAVE TO GET TO TRAVERS LIVE IN MYRTLE BEACH.
TRAVERS: THE RAIN IS STARTING, THE WIND IS PICKING UP.
IT’S CRAZY HOW THINGS CHANGE IN HALF AN HOUR BUT WE ARE DEFINITELY FEELING THIS IN MYRTLE BEACH, PROBABLY THE WORST WEATHER WE HAVE GOTTEN IN THE LAST 48 HOURS.
NOTHING SERIOUS YET.
BUT THAT IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE LATER TODAY AS THIS WILL BE WIND, RAIN, AND A STORM SURGE EVENT FOR MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA.
PEOPLE HUNKERING DOWN AND SHELTERED IN PLACE BECAUSE WHEN WE HIT DAYBREAK, IT WILL BE RAINED NONSTOP.
IT IS EXPECTED TO BE RAINED NONSTOP THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE DAY.
THEY DO HAVE POWER CREWS ON STANDBY.
THEY EXPECT TO LOSE POWER IN SOUTHERN PARTS OF CAROLINA AND THEY HAVE BOATS ON STAND IN CASE ANY TYPE OF HIGH WATER RESCUE IS NEEDED.
WE ARE STARTING TO FEEL THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE FLORENCE.
KIMBERLY: WE HAVE CREWS SPREAD ACROSS THE PIEDMONT TRIAD.
DAVONTE: WIND IS PICKING UP IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.
THAT’S WHERE MEREDITH STUTZ IS LIVE THIS MORNING.
MEREDITH THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE ANTICIPATING LATER THIS WEEKEND.
CERTAINLY THE WIND THAT WE ARE SEEING AND HEARING.
IT HAS ALREADY CAUSED A TREE TO FALL DOWN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.
IT HAPPENED EARLIER THIS MORNING.
WE KNOW THAT THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CENTER IS WORKING ROUND-THE-CLOCK, MAKING SURE PEOPLE HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO COLIN.
THEY HAVE ADDED 911 CALLERS AND THEY OPENED UP A NEW SHELT AND THEY HAVE 150 COTS.
YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK THAT OUT AND YOU ARE ASKED TO BRING MEDICATIONS, CLOSE, AND BEDDING.
IT HAS DROPPED A LITTLE BIT IN TEMPERATURES.
WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED AS CONDITIONS WORSEN HERE IN ASHEBORO.
KIMBERLY: NOW WE WILL GO OVER TO BRIAN SLOCUM.
IT IS GETTING MORE OF A TROPICAL FEEL.
THE WIND IS PICKING UP.
BRIA IT ACTUALLY FEELS A BIT MORE TROPICAL OUTSIDE AND THIS IS KIND OF THE WIDE VIEW OF THE STORM.
IT WAS GOING THROU SEVERAL TIMES OF WEAKENING BECAUSE OF WIND SHEAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE STORM OR ANOTHER.
CARLY AND I WERE WATCHING THIS EARLY THIS MORNING AND NOTICING THE I WAS LOOKING A LITTLE WEAKER.
WE DID NOT SEE HEAVY RAIN WRAPPED AROUND IT.
HEAVIEST RAIN, JEROD’S LOCATION NEAR THE WILMINGTON AREA, THEY HAD TO EVACUATE.
YESTERDAY FROM HERE AND MOVING BACK THIS WAY, CONDITIONS ARE CERTAINLY MORE ROUGH AS YOU GET TO PLACES FURTHER TO THE NORTH WHERE THE STORM IS MAKING LANDFALL.
THE RAINFALL IS COMING IN NORTH TO SOUTH IN THESE LOCATIONS.
HEAVY RAIN ON TOP OF THAT WITH THE STORM SURGE WHICH IS RIGHT HERE.
THAT BEGINS TO WORK ITS WAY ONSHORE AND THE WILL CALL LANDFALL.
IT WILL BEGIN TO COME ONSHORE.
WE DO HAVE TROPICAL STORM WATCHES AND WARNING, MORE WATCHES THEN WARNINGS AT THIS POINT.
THIS IS KIND OF UNUSUAL TO SEE THEM THIS FAR INLAND, BUT YOU LOOK AT WIND GUSTING FROM 40 TO 70 MILES AN HOUR.
HEAVY RAI INTO SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE HURRICANE WATCH WILL FILL IN THE GAP.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING, INUNDATED RAINS TO MOVE IN.
LOCALLY, THE ONLY ADVISORY IS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH.
ALL THE WAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING.
THE RAIN RADAR, EASTERN AREAS, AND IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE SHOWERY.
MOSTLY SOUTH FIRST BEEN GRADUALLY FILLING IN THE NORTH.
THIS WILL BE OVER THE SOUTHERN AREAS TODAY AND THE WIND WILL BE WHIPPING ACROSS THE SOUTH.
IT WILL LIKELY BE JUST OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR, BUT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS THAT WILL CAUSE ISSUES.
MID-70’S, FIVE TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN.
WE’RE STILL GOING WITH POSSIBILITY.
KIMBERLY: WE WILL BE ON THE AIR THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
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