Let's turn now to meteorologist
Brittany Van Voorhees, Brittany.
Tracking some severe
thunderstorm warnings out there.
Yeah, Fred, Vanessa,
these are all up toward portions of our
mountain and Foothill areas north of I forty.
In fact, you can see heavy rain still
lingering and gusty winds for parts there.
Beech Mountain and really, truthfully,
Beech Mountain isn't even seeing the
worst of those thunderstorms right now.
We have a new severe thunderstorm
issued for parts.
Two of Caldwell counties
over toward Burke counties,
and you can still see the one down
toward a Alexander Iredell and Caldwell.
So from pretty much areas
north of Turnersburg.
All the way toward Beech Mountain.
This line of a cluster of shrunk
to severe thunderstorms is *****.
Line is causing the potential
for strong storms.
Now what I've noticed over the past
30 minutes or so is that the lightning
potential is definitely gone up.
You can see about 25 or so lightning
strikes with this little cell here
that's just now moving into Northern
Iredell and Alexander counties and then
the additional 1 they're over there.
Boomer now these are going to be moving
South here very slowly and that's
why this is prompting at the thread
for not only frequent lightning,
some damaging winds and excess of 60 mph.
But I'd also say localized flooding is
going to be a big possibility here.
This will be nearing areas near
Eagle Mills around six, twenty five,
Taylorsville cost about six,
forty or so,
and we know in a lot of these areas
up toward the mountains, foothills.
Oftentimes they can flood much much
easier just because of elevation
changes a turnersburg just about six,
fifty or so.
This will be nearing Hickory,
around seven o'clock Conover,
and over toward Claremont,
at about seven fifteen.
So it's going to be holding together
for quite some time, but of course,
moving pretty slowly,
and here's a new area of a severe
thunderstorm warning issued here for Avery.
Working Caldwell counties now.
This one not as impressive in
terms of lightning strikes,
but remember,
lightning strikes have nothing to
do with severe thunderstorms.
Being issued is all about the wind.
And of course,
it's all about the hail size and all
about the small potential for a tornado.
Thankfully, none of that this evening.
Now these are mostly one inch sizes of hail
that we've been at seeing here reported.
That's about a quarter or so,
so it's enough to damage a car,
maybe even a windshield,
but it's not those golf ball,
significant sized hailstones
that we oftentimes see as we
transition from spring to summer.
Now getting closer to the seven
eight o'clock time frame.
These storms will be moving South
of I-40 and I do think some of
these could linger closer to the
Piedmont later on this evening.
So just because we've been mostly dry.
Here in Charlotte doesn't mean we'll
stay that way all evening now.
Tonight if your thunderstorm
potential was pretty low,
and so just to give you some
perspective tomorrow and Thursday.
This actually goes from low shaded
and yellow up to orange shaded there,
which is a medium threat here.
This is both tomorrow and even into Thursday,
so I know showing this map
earlier and it kind of looked
like the colors weren't changing,
but they are tomorrow's threat,
of course is higher not just
for severe thunderstorms,
but the heat and humidity
is going to be higher too,
so all that heat and humidity
all that daytime heating.
Will prompt the potential for a
strong to severe storms between
about 5:00 to 11:00 o'clock.
That's the timing I'm targeting
in the Charlotte area.
That'll be high wind and
flash flooding potential.
What's different about tomorrow is
the higher humidity and the heavier
pockets of rain will allow for the
downburst wind to be a slightly
better possibility there for
tomorrow and also through Thursday.
So if there's any outdoor furniture,
you're really don't want to lose,
or you're just trying to plan your day,
please be sure to stay,
whether aware not just tomorrow but
into Thursday too, and the reason why.
It's not just that moderate risk for storms,
it's also the fact that the heat
and the combination of the humidity
will prompt another heat wave.
Here locally,
a heat wave typically categorized as
above average heat for two days or more,
and that will be the case tomorrow,
Thursday, and even into Friday.
Now the two days,
I think we're at a better chance there
to see heat index values rise closer to 105,
which would prompt heat advisories.
That's going to be Wednesday and Thursday.
In fact,
we already have a heat advisory in
effect for two counties here locally.
That's Richmond and Anson County.
Because we have different
National Weather Service offices,
I do expect those to be expanded
here over the next few hours.
If not tomorrow morning.
So next two days we are weather
aware because of severe storms and
also that potential for really,
really above average Keats rain
chances do stay elevated toward
Friday and Saturday,
their lowest actually Sunday and Monday,
as we'll get a nice little break as
highs will only peak in the 80s.
We'll be right back.