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Days of repeated storms are bringing a risk of flash flooding to a large swath of the Southeast.
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00:00Today we've had some flash flooding in Savannah. Earlier today we had a lot of problems in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.
00:06Flood watches continue in Atlanta, across much of Georgia, far southeast Alabama, into Dothan.
00:11And you can see that there are some areas of concern off the Carolina coast here from the Port Royal Sound all the way up to Kiowa Island with a big marine warning there.
00:20And there is a severe thunderstorm on the map here into parts of eastern Florida, south of Deltona.
00:25So parts of Orange and Seminole counties of Florida under a severe thunderstorm warning.
00:30So let's take a look at the radar here. Drenching thunderstorms lifting north from areas around Savannah and Hilton Head up into Kiowa Island.
00:38And next up will be Charleston. Heading farther south here we have our severe thunderstorm in progress into an area here just a little bit south of Deltona there into parts of Orange and Seminole counties.
00:50So damaging wind is a concern with that downpour, but also some very heavy rains also on the map to the north.
00:55A couple of heavy cells and showers and thunderstorms south of St. Augustine and north of the Space Coast as well.
01:02So temperatures, they are looking really nice. Really, this is the only payoff, the benefit of all this thunderstorm activity.
01:07It's 67 in Charlotte, very comfortable there, but humid.
01:11Heading west, though, there's something more typical, 99 in Lubbock, Texas.
01:15So thunderstorms will be with us in the southeast tomorrow.
01:18Some of these will bring yet another round of flash flooding and the greatest risk for flash flooding tomorrow from around places near Interstate 77 in southern Virginia all the way down through Charlotte to Raleigh, Fayetteville, Conway, South Carolina, down to Savannah and Charleston as well.
01:35Some of this downpour activity is going to be very heavy.
01:38And then eventually we begin to turn our attention to the east.
01:41And this disturbance, this area of circulation is going to be drifting pretty slowly and steadily west and northwest.
01:47By the end of the week, there may be a tropical depression on our hands, potentially off the southeast coast.
01:54Now, it's possible that the center of circulation may never make landfall, it may stay offshore, but it will bring some extra downpours to the southeast coast here.
02:02And we are concerned about flash flooding for the eastern part of the Carolinas down into east Georgia.
02:08And temperatures stay down here with all that thunderstorm activity in Charleston and Charlotte through Friday.
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