Unbelievable

My heart is aching for all of the folks in central and eastern NC. This is a tornado outbreak like this region has not seen in a long, long time. Prayers are with everyone impacted by this storm system. April 16 will go down as a red-letter say in North Carolina weather history.

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Saturday late morning....

Our broken line of storms stretches at 10:40 from near Spartanburg to Lenoir to Sparta. All indications are that this will congeal into an intense line of storms by the time it reaches roughly I-77.

Wind damage will be an obvious concern with this line, but there is tons of shear and helicity in place. So this will likely be one of those deals where there will be a few tornadoes embedded within the overall line of storms. And of course, any of the storms that can maintain themselves out ahead of the main line will pose a tornado threat.

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The biggest problems will likely be for the areas a little east of I-77 on eastward.

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Severe weather...

A moderate risk of severe weather remains in place for much of MS and AL. I believe what we will see happen is the line of storms running from MS into northern AL will likely stall out, or at least nearly stall out. Then, I anticipate new storms firing in MS this afternoon and spreading into AL with time. The areas that are under the line of storms when it stalls could wind up with an extended period of severe storms rolling through.

For the Carolinas, the showers spread in tonight, and by late tonight, some storms could get involved. However, our greatest threat of severe storms will likely come after daybreak tomorrow, and possibly more toward lunch time.

I believe damaging winds will be the primary threat, but there are enough dynamics in place that an isolated tornado or two is also possible.

I also should mention that the mountains and foothills could see some widespread 2" type of rains, depending on how things set up.

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