We continue to keep you weather
aware here in the Carolinas.
Meteorologist KJ Jacobs joins us now.
KJ, we're still tracking some
severe storms in our area tonig.
That's right Fred.
And those dark clouds are
starting to move overhead.
So that's your our first indicar
that we do have some ominous weather,
some strong storms.
Moving into the Piedmont,
as we look right now,
these storms are now in the
foothills and you can see the
dark cloud right here behind me.
Very ominous sky conditions out there.
We're tracking this particular
severe thunderstorm.
This is now starting to make
its way out of Cleveland County,
well north of Shelby right now.
Moving into Lincoln County alsos
going to brush past Gaston Coun,
but it does show signs of driftg
towards the South and east and that will
take it towards northern Gaston County.
A closer look to bring it in for you here.
It does give us that sound.
We do have some rotation with it
to some degree as we continue
to see the radar loop.
As I've been looking at it behind the scenes,
it did show some signs of rotat,
but it does show signs of weakening as well.
But nonetheless,
we do have intense lightning happening here.
Also,
some hail within the core of
this cell and heavy rainfall tht
could produce some localized
flooding as it continues to make
its way towards the east and.
Southeast at about 20 miles an .
So it is a slow moving storm.
Heads up,
get to your safe place if you
are underneath this strong storm
that's happening right now for
those of you in the foothills.
So we do have some hail coming t
radar estimates about two inches close to it.
That'll be about the size of an 8 ball.
So that is some decent size
hail that could produce damage.
In addition, we have damaging wind gusts.
That is going to be my main con.
So if you don't have a sail
over you right now, which most?
If you don't,
we still have a severe thundersm
watch in effect until 10:00 o'ck
tonight it was just upgraded or
extended to cover more ground.
So at first it was right along 0
covering the foothills in the mountains.
But now it does cover more of te
foothills as well as parts of the Piedmont.
And it includes Cabarrus as well
as Mecklenburg counties.
As it stands now,
through 10:00 O'clock tonight,
I know for many of you it's dry out there.
You have some blue skies.
The clouds are not too dark just yet,
but here's what we're up against in terms.
Of the impact level.
So the wind is going to be our main concern.
I know you hear us talk about
say spin or rotation,
it really doesn't take that for
us to have some damage reports.
So we still could have damage
coming in from some of the strog
winds transported down to the
ground from these cells.
Also we're not out of the
woods with that tornado threat.
In addition,
we'll have likely this cell is continuing to
carry that health threat right along with it.
So we'll have that potential ong
and flooding it is likely to oc.
Actually, as these cells are slow movers
and they're producing a lot of rain in a
short amount of time through 6:00 and 7:00,
o'clock notice we'll have more
of these clusters developing.
So we still have that potential.
These won't be widespread,
but some scattered showers and storms
ongoing producing the heavy rai,
the lightning,
as well as the strong wind gust.
This is the line we're watching
for later this evening.
So in the next two hours we could have a
secondary line moving towards the mountains.
As it stands now, watch it here
as we move towards later tonigh.
It's not going to look as inten.
It will likely weaken some as we move towards
11:00 o'clock tonight and then overnight.
We could still have some
lightning out there as well,
some heavy downpours,
but I don't think it'll be too,
too strong.
But it is something we will cone
to monitor as the conditions
will change as we do have some f
these showers out there now that
could stabilize the atmosphere a
little bit more by later tonigh.
The Carolina Camera Network,
this is Mark,
is showing us a mix of sun and clouds.
But notice how the sky conditios
are starting to change.
We're seeing more of a Gray skys
opposed to a blue sky as we were
just seeing about an hour ago.
So the weather is happening
right before our eyes right now.
We do have the ingredients to fd
these storms, very warm temperatures.
It's very muggy, very sticky out there.
You got a roof in seven day
forecast tomorrow, a high of 82.
So we'll have another warm day tomorrow.
Small chance for shower storm.
By Thursday and Friday,
drier also,
we're looking ahead of a gorgeous weekend
and also a warm one in the low .
OK, thank you KJ,
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