With a chance of severe weather over the 4042 area, please be safe when heading out this evening. Also, some people may have power outages as the ground is EXTREMELY saturated from other rainstorms, especially Friday's storms, and topples trees EDIT: At the time of writing, a NEW Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for Harnett County but not Johnston County. The picture shows the storms in Anson County right now This is the watch SEL5 URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 45 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 230 PM EDT Mon Apr 8 2019 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Extreme Eastern Georgia Central North Carolina Central South Carolina Southern Virginia * Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 230 PM until 1000 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are intensifying over the western Carolinas and eastern Georgia, and will spread across the watch area through the afternoon. Locally damaging wind gusts and hail are possible in the more intense storms. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles east of Augusta GA to 30 miles east northeast of Lynchburg VA. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes. && AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 24030. ...Hart As always, be safe folks! And stay up to date by downloading the WRAL Weather alert app
