Potential for severe weather in the Carolinas

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Dr. Reed Timmer is in Camden, South Carolina, ahead of a storm system that has the potential for severe weather including possible tornado activity in eastern North Carolina.

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00:00 I'm in northeastern South Carolina near Camden and it looks like the tornado

00:04 potential is going to be gradually increasing especially in eastern North

00:07 Carolina. There's already been a tornado warning just to the southwest of the

00:11 Raleigh area. That's where the strongest low-level wind shear is located and I

00:15 think that the convective line to the east of Charlotte is going to begin to

00:19 intensify as it moves up toward eastern North Carolina and there's also a

00:23 likelihood that some supercell storms could also migrate northward near

00:27 coastal South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina later on this afternoon

00:32 and the evening and those also could pose a water spout and a tornado

00:36 potential as well. But you can see the southerly winds here racing from south

00:39 to north. That's the low-level jet and it is quite strong here about 40 to 50

00:44 knots down in South Carolina. It increases across eastern North Carolina

00:48 as well and I do expect a tornado watch very shortly if there's not already one

00:53 in place because of those tornado warnings that are already happening near

00:56 the nose of the instability to the southwest of the Raleigh area and

00:59 definitely some populated areas will be impacted by this severe weather

01:03 including the Fayetteville area all the way up toward Raleigh, east through

01:07 Wilmington and possibly down toward Florence, South Carolina as well as this

01:11 convective line off to the west begins to reinvigorate. There's also going to be

01:15 fast storm motions today once again similar to yesterday. Those supercell

01:19 storms are going to be racing at 40 to 50 miles an hour so certainly stay tuned

01:22 to those severe weather watches and warnings today across the eastern

01:26 Carolinas back to the Piedmont.

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