Some severe storms possible today...

An upper level disturbance will ripple through the region over the next 18 hours, and that will provide us with some showers and storms later today and possibly tonight. There are enough winds aloft today that some more organized storms are possible, moreso than the pulse type storms of yesterday.

Tara Lane is in the captain's chair until this afternoon, and then I will be in the weather office for the evening shift.

This will likely not be a huge severe weather event, but some potentially damaging winds and large hail will be possible along with locally heavy rain and vivid lightning.

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Friday Evening...

We had a severe thunderstorm affect southern Mecklenburg County this afternoon. Overall, the storm was not TOO bad, but we had lots of report of gusty winds and small hail combined with heavy rain and some lightning and thunder.

We had a significant power disruption earlier in the week here at News 14 Carolina, and one of the byproducts of the power disruption is the temporary loss of the normal means of getting viewer photos immediately on the air. But, even though I couldn't get them on the air today, a big THANK YOU to all of you who emailed in reports and pictures....they are tremendously helpful. We should have that problem fixed next week.

Below are a few shots we received from viewers today...all form south Mecklenburg County.

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Hail...

You often times see enough hail in thunderstorms to cover the ground, but not this much. Pretty amazing!

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