North Carolina News

By Keely Arthur, WRAL reporter Canton, N.C. — The remnants of Tropical Depression Fred hit parts of western North Carolina hard, triggering flooding and mudslides. Several communities in Haywood County had to be evacuated late Tuesday night as rivers flooded into the streets, prompting Gov. Roy Cooper to issue a State of Emergency. On Wednesday afternoon, Haywood County officials told WRAL News approximately 30 people are missing. Search and rescue crews are looking for the…

RALEIGH, N.C. — The final storm bands of Fred are pushing through central North Carolina dumping heavy rain and flashing the sky with lightning. According to the National Hurricane Center, the center of Tropical Depression Fred was located in West Virginia on Wednesday morning. However, the final outer bands of the storm remain in North Carolina. Fred’s storms stretch all the way from Robeson County to Person County. The storms are pushing through the area…

By WRAL News Asheville, N.C. — The remnants of Tropical Depression Fred hit parts of western North Carolina hard, triggering flooding and mudslides. Several communities in Haywood County had to be evacuated late Tuesday night as rivers flooded into the streets. On Wednesday afternoon, Haywood County officials told WRAL News approximately 30 people are missing. Search and rescue crews are looking for the missing people via land, water and air. Nearly 9 inches of rain was…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center As Fred moves away from central North Carolina on Wednesday morning, WRAL meteorologists are watching two tropical storms. Hurricane Grace formed before 11 a.m. on Wednesday and is the second hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Grace, currently near the Grand Cayman Islands, is expected to make landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula Thursday morning and then again in central Mexico late Friday. Grace is not expected to impact the…

By The New York Times, New York Times Tropical Depression Fred moved through the Southeast on Tuesday, bringing with it heavy rains and touching off several tornadoes, one day after it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle. As of 11 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, Fred was about 135 miles south-southwest of Charleston, West Virginia, with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph, the National Weather Service said. It was moving north-northeast at 22 mph. The system…

By The New York Times, New York Times Tropical Storm Grace is expected to become a hurricane Wednesday as it bears down on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, two days after making landfall in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm’s heavy rains brought flooding that hampered recovery efforts from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the country Saturday. “That heavy rainfall can really lead to life-threatening flooding and mudslides and potentially urban flooding…

By TERENCE CHEA, ETHAN SWOPE and JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. — Firefighters faced dangerously windy weather Tuesday as they struggled to keep the nation’s largest wildfire from advancing toward a Northern California city while a portrait of devastation emerged in a small mountain community hit by another inferno. Winds spawned by the arrival of a new weather system Monday afternoon pushed the monstrous Dixie Fire to within about 8 miles (12.8 kilometers)…