Special Edition: The Fury of Florence: Breaking News: Tracking Tropical Storm Florence: Slow-Moving Storm Moves into South Carolina
NBC ID: MAAAAAXDQB | Production Unit: Weekend Today | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 09/15/2018 | Event Date(s): 09/15/2018Transcript
Event Date(s): 09/15/2018 | Event Location(s): Wilmington, North Carolina | Description: EXT NORTH CAROLINA Live in Wilmington, DYLAN DREYER (07:02:21): Good morning, guys. You know, here in Wilmington, we've been in these bands of not heavy rain whereas areas just to the northeast of us have been dealing with torrential downpours all through the night. Let's take you to the graphics and show you that it is still a tropical storm, but it is massive and it has that classic set up with that counterclockwise rotation that's continuing to pump in the moisture off the Atlantic. Now we are going to see those bands of really heavy rain continue to move through areas like Jacksonville, even as far inland as Fayetteville. And up towards Raleigh, we have that heavy rain. The heaviest of the rain right now is located on the Northeast side of this storm. As you just said it is a tropical storm, winds are at fifty miles per hour, and the path of the storm still brings it very, very slowly to the West/Southwest. Then it will continue to rain itself out and bring some gusty winds to interior South Carolina and North Carolina and then swipe its way up towards the Pittsburgh area as we go into Tuesday. And then into the Northeast by the time we get to Wednesday. So this thing is going to linger for quite some time. The storm surge is still going to be an issue through today's high tide just after twelve-thirty and midnight high tide tonight. We still could see a three to five feet storm surge in areas along the coast and then some of rivers, especially the Pamlico River could be up to about four to seven feet with that storm surge. And all of the water that's been falling needs to settle into the river. So that's why flood warnings are posted. Flood watches are posted. Because as that water trickles into the rivers and they overflow their banks, that is still going to continue to keep that flood threat around. So even when the rain stops, if it stops, we still have that flooding threat. So the flood threat today is still across the South Central North Carolina and northeastern parts of South Carolina. Tomorrow it shifts a little farther inland as the storm shifts inland and brings some of that heavier rain with it, especially Western North Carolina on Sunday. So we have already picked up about twenty-four inches of rain in areas just to the Northeast of here like Morehead City. But we could see an additional fifteen inches of rain in that deepest color of red there across North Carolina. That would put storm totals up around thirty to forty inches. So we still have a lot of rain to go. We still have the river flooding to go. And for the next two high tides, we still could have some coastal flooding as well with that storm surge and that storm still pushing that water onshore. Guys. GFX: Graphics of radar map of the tracking of Hurricane Florence
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