Low Pressure System May Have Tropical Characteristics
09/13/24 2:22pm ET
Good afternoon everyone. We continue to watch very heavy showers and thunderstorms moving into the Cape Hatteras area of North Carolina, then move inland; bringing with it copious amounts of rain and locally strong to severe thunderstorms.
We’ll continue to watch this tropical moisture stream in and cause some travel headaches, as well as maritime hazards. Locally stong winds may cause boating hazards, with rough seas and isolated waterspouts. Those hazards may translate onto land, with some locally damaging winds and flooding issues due to heavy rain bands going over the same areas. South Carolina is also not out of the woods, with heavy showers & thunderstorms starting to pop up on the other side of the SC/NC state line.
The unfortunate news is that this is not the headline, only the appetizer. As discussed several days ago in reagrds to the chance of a coastal storm, those chances are starting to increase. The energy you see now in North Carolina will continue to stick around as the remnant energy of Hurricane Francine gets squeezed out of the Mississippi Valley, and off of the Southeast Coast.