All right, let's get over to the
weather right now, as we experienced
all of these tornado warnings.
It felt like a record setting day
sure did got the hardest working chief
meteorologist in town, Brad Panovich.
Standing by Brad take a deep
breath and tell us what
we can expect tomorrow.
You know, I was telling Vanessa these stats.
It's crazy, you know we had 37
tornado warnings issued from the
Greenville Spartanburg office that
now will put us at 62 for the year.
That's the most tornado warnings in a year.
And remember, it's only what August 18th?
Tomorrow since 1986, and what was the
previous record it was last year at 61,
so we've surpassed that with
that late night Tornado warning.
So the tornado watch I'll be watching
carefully because they'll start whittling
away these counties back to the West.
So the line is right there and
it's pushing off to the East,
so technically 2:00 AM.
We'll see if it lasts that long now.
The flood watch is still up until
8:00 AM tomorrow morning as well,
but we'll probably start seeing
that whittle down as well,
but we've had some flooding.
The water is still rising in some locations.
'cause of that runoff?
So there is the line of storms.
You could see it pretty much across the area.
It stretches all the way down to Colombia
through Charlotte and up towards states.
So now here's the good news.
If you live West of this line that includes
Lake Wylie out towards Gaston County,
Lincoln, Catawba, Cleveland,
in Western New York, most of Chester,
now you're all clear from severe.
Now there's still some runoff,
but you're all clear from severe.
We did have some flooding here
in the last 15 minutes.
Looks like a Creek going into Lake Norman
there in Iredell County, just West of.
More so that's Hwy 150 right there.
So some flooding occurring
as it flows into lake.
The good news with some of our
area lakes they were pretty low
because of the dry conditions,
so there is some capacity
for the lakes to hold.
Some of this rain,
but as this rain moves off to the
east the rain coming down from the
mountains will be coming downstream
and could kick off additional showers.
Now where's Fred?
There's the remnants.
It's actually the last advisory
was just issued with the system,
so it's pushing off to the northeast
and by 2:00 AM all this mess should
be out of here and will dry out.
Overnight and tomorrow.
Now there's still going to be a chance
for a pop up shower storm tomorrow,
but the chances are going to be
probably in the 30 to 40% range as
we see that kind of more westerly
flow things will actually be moving
tomorrow as the storms move out,
so there's another view of our
futurecast just to show you that moving
for the next couple of hours we're
still going to have a high risk for
flash flooding in those areas where
that rain band sets up by tomorrow,
the heavy rain moves out of the area
and will actually begin to dry out
so the flash flood threat goes down.
So your hour by hour forecast.
Through tonight, the rain tapers
off and look at this by tomorrow,
drier weather calmer weather,
with temperatures in the low 80s
that tropical moisture moves out,
but there's still some lingering
moisture back to the West,
so there's going to be the potential
for some showers in next couple of days.
Severe weather risk will
start to move out tonight,
but with that stalled front and up to the
north we could see some isolated areas
of strong storms north and West of us.
Likely not in the Carolinas and
the wet weather over the next seven
days begins to move out of here,
so you could still see some risk for
some pop up storms in the mountains.
But overall,
the amount of rain is going to be
lesser over the next few days,
so you could see the five day rainfall
forecasts kind of more towards the coast,
so this will be more isolated to scattered.
I'll still keep a 40% tomorrow,
but more in the 20% range going
forward now in the tropics.
Believe it or not,
we have two other tropical systems
we've got tropical storm grace,
which could become a hurricane
weekend and then become a hurricane
again as it moves across Mexico,
but that is not going to impact the US.
Now.
What's interesting is tropical Storm
Onrait could become a hurricane as well.
It's going to stay off the coast,
but because it's going to be
a hurricane and get stronger,
it's close enough to push some huge swells,
maybe even beach erosion and rip
currents up and down the East Coast.
So while it stays off the East Coast,
the potential is there some big time
surf and those swells it just be
cautious if you're heading to the
beach we could see some flooding
in areas near the Outer Banks,
so tomorrow rebounding temperatures
back up into the upper 80s.
Hot humid day pop up storm possible,
and now we're back to that summer pattern.
Look at these temperatures.
Lower 90s going into the weekend
with scattered storms and those
low 90s will stay intact all the
way through the middle of next week
before a subtle cool down by the
end of the week. We'll be right back.