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Waves pummeled the shores of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan early this week as an intense storm system swept across the Great Lakes. Winds howled from the Dakotas through Michigan, and AccuWeather Reporter Blake Naftel witnessed the power of the storm first-hand along the eastern shores of Lake Michigan. Naftel was in Grand Haven, Michigan, on Tuesday morning when 50-mph wind gusts lashed the area. Those strong winds spawned large waves that crashed down on…

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Multiple crews are on the scene of a large fire that damaged multiple buildings in Mooresville overnight.  According to firefighters at the scene, first responders were called to a reported fire in the Ashlyn Creek subdivision on Samara Lane, which is off Kistler Farm Road, around midnight Tuesday night. When firefighters arrived, they found multiple buildings on fire. Mooresville Fire Department said some of the homes are expected to be total losses…

A rash of severe weather including thunderstorms with damaging wind and the occasional tornado is hitting the Southeast — and Charlotte is in the cross-hairs, according to forecasters. Thunderstorms accompanied … Click to Continue »

This is a breaking story that will be updated throughout the night. Severe storms developed in the Dallas-Fort Wort metro area on Sunday night. The system brought hail, lightning and at least one confirmed tornado, first spotted north of Love Field in Dallas around 9 p.m.  A tornado warning is in place for parts of Ellis, Dallas and Collin counties until 10 p.m. Sunday. One warning was issued for northern Dallas County and southern Collin…

CONCORD, N.C. — The Jeep made famous during Hurricane Dorian was docked for a few days at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.  The red Jeep Grand Cherokee is known to many as the Jeep abandoned near the Myrtle Beach shoreline during the height of Hurricane Dorian. It even inspired a hashtag, #JeepWatch2019.  The Jeep was docked at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Pennzoil AutoFair from October 17-19. RELATED: ‘Hey, we found your Jeep on the beach’: Owner did…

WASHINGTON — Key Points: * Storm is now a post tropical cyclone, but still brings threat of rain, winds and storm surge, and tornadoes* Rain: 2-4 inches. Storm Surge: 2-5 feet*What is left of the storm will track off the NC coast Sunday and may bring some rain and showers to the DMV Nestor has lost its tropical features and is now a post-tropical cyclone as it moves ashore in Florida. This storm is producing…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For less than 24 hours Tropical Storm Nestor was a “technical” tropical storm but now it has been dubbed Post-Tropical extratropical Nestor. It does not have convection (thunderstorm activity) around the low-level center and satellite imagery indicates that the center has merged with a nearby frontal system making this a standard mid-latitude cyclone (low with a warm and cold front).  WCNC The merging with another system is where you have heard the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tropical Storm Nestor has developed over the Gulf of Mexico! It is expected to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle early tomorrow. Nestor will race along the southeast coast with the strongest winds southeast of Charlotte along with the heaviest rain. TIMING: Clouds will increase Saturday morning with rain developing during the afternoon, but the heaviest showers will be late evening through the early morning Sunday. The Charlotte area will likely see…

Tropical Storm Nestor is expected to dump “heavy rain” on Charlotte this weekend, National Weather Service meteorologists said Friday. An 80 percent chance of rain is forecast at Charlotte Douglas … Click to Continue »

MIAMI — Forecasters say a disturbance moving through the Gulf of Mexico has become Tropical Storm Nestor. The National Hurricane Center says high winds and dangerous storm surge are likely along parts of the northern Gulf Coast. The system is expected to bring a wet weekend across much of the drought-parched Southeast, where some events were being canceled and officials were trying to calm fears of a hard hit. It is scheduled to reach the…

WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters — hurricanes and earthquakes — and they’re calling them “stormquakes.” The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor’easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week’s journal Geophysical Research Letters. The quakes are fairly common, but they weren’t noticed before because they were considered seismic background noise. A stormquake is more an…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Tropical Storm Melissa has formed southeast of New England. The National Hurricane Center says Melissa is currently about 305 miles south-southeast of Nantucket, Mass. It’s packing 50 mph winds and chugging to the northeast at 12 mph. Forecasters expect the system to move away from the east coast of the United States and gradually weaken over the next couple of days.  Melissa could lose its subtropical characteristics as early as Saturday…

Subtropical Storm Melissa has formed southeast of New England. The National Hurricane Center says Melissa is currently about 190 miles south of Nantucket, Mass. It’s packing 65 mph winds and chugging along south-southwest at 3 mph. Melissa is expected to turn toward the east-northeast while increasing in forward speed Friday night and into the weekend. Forecasters expect the system to move away from the east coast of the United States and gradually weaken over the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The famous Hurricane Dorian Jeep, that made its rounds on the internet, is headed to the Charlotte Motor Speedway later this month.  According to the speedway, the red Jeep Grand Cherokee will dry dock at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Oct. 17-19 Pennzoil AutoFair.   According to WMBF, Myrtle Beach Police came across an abandoned SUV near the shoreline in Myrtle Beach at the height of Hurricane Dorian. Police said that someone decided to…

The red Jeep that drew viewers worldwide as Hurricane Dorian threatened to wash it off the South Carolina shore will appear at the Pennzoil AutoFair at Charlotte Motor Speedway next … Click to Continue »