Severe weather risk for East Coast

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Extreme Meteorologist, Dr. Reed Timmer, reports from Georgetown, South Carolina, where there is street flooding and a risk for tornado-producing storms.

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00:00 You can see vehicles getting submerged here along Highway 17 in Georgetown.

00:04 This road is now closed down.

00:06 You can also see the fire engines on the horizon there on Highway 17, a little bit

00:10 closer to the river, definitely submerged vehicles there as well.

00:13 This is right next to Liberty Steel in Georgetown, a very low lying area.

00:18 And we have got rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour out here in the

00:23 heart of this convective band, basically a fire hose of moisture and very heavy

00:28 rain that is coming into the Georgetown, South Carolina area.

00:31 And this convective band is going to be sliding off to the Northeast, to the

00:34 upper South Carolina coast, eventually up through Myrtle beach and eventually

00:38 toward Cape Fear and Southeastern North Carolina as well.

00:41 Wrightsville beach, Wilmington could be included in that.

00:44 And if any of that surface space instability can move on shore out here,

00:48 we're going to be talking about tornado potential and inside of this convective

00:52 band, some of those rainfall rates could even exceed two inches per hour.

00:56 Pretty dangerous situation out here across coastal South Carolina, the upper

00:59 coast sliding up toward North Carolina as well with this potent coastal low

01:04 that continues to intensify just offshore.

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