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By WRAL Severe Weather Center The rainy conditions we’ve seen across the Triangle on Thursday were lessening into the night along with the threat for possible tornadoes. Parts of Central North Carolina remained under a Tornado Watch until 11 p.m. on Thursday. Tornado watches were canceled for Cumberland and Hoke counties as of 8 p.m. They remained in effect for Duplin, Lenoir, Sampson and Wayne counties until 11 p.m. WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell said the…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Parts of Central North Carolina remain under a Tornado Watch until 11 p.m. on Thursday. Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson, and Wayne Counties are included in the Tornado Watch. WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell said the highest potential for tornado activity was earlier in the day for Cumberland County. The highest tornado potential through the early evening was for areas in Sampson County, Wayne County and southern Johnston County until around 8 p.m….

CANTONMENT, Fla. — The firetrucks and rescue vehicles kept passing her house even after Elaine Hulgan, 76, wrote “IN ATTIC HELP” on the front door. So Hulgan’s 84-year-old husband resorted to his best emergency signal: an ear-splitting whistle. The noise rose above the din, and a firefighter on a Jet Ski soon rescued the couple and their two dogs off the front stoop of their brick home. The Florida couple was trapped in their home…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Parts of Central North Carolina are under a Tornado Watch until 11 p.m. on Thursday. Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson, and Wayne Counties are included in the Tornado Watch. WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell said the highest potential for a tornado for Cumberland County is about 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eventually the highest tornado potential will track towards Sampson County, Wayne County, southern Johnston County between about 6 p.m. and 8 p.m….

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Parts of Central North Carolina are under a Tornado Watch until 11 p.m. on Thursday. Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson, and Wayne Counties are included in the Tornado Watch. Much of the state is also under a flash flood watch and a Level 2 risk for severe storms on Thursday and into Friday evening. Remnants from Sally are bringing us excessive rainfall and flooding. Rain will be possible all day on Thursday…

By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — It began as a stunning light show on a mid-August weekend — lightning bolts crackling in the skies over Northern and Central California, touching down in grasslands and vineyards. The National Weather Service warned that the dry lightning striking a parched landscape “could lead to new wildfire.” It turned out to be a huge understatement. Thousands of bolts ignited hundreds of fires in California and at least…

A seven-year-old Texas girl couldn’t contain her excitement seeing her dad return after 25 days of fighting wildfires in California. Adley Blount greeted her dad with a hug and cheers as he arrived home, and the sweet reunion was captured on video. Quincy Blount of McKinney, Texas, was among the first 44 firefighters sent out to California last month. Now, more than 200 Texas firefighters are helping on the front lines of the various fires…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Much of the state is under a flash flood watch and a Level 2 risk for severe storms on Thursday and into Friday evening. Remnants from Sally are bringing us excessive rainfall and flooding. Rain will be possible all day on Thursday and Friday. WRAL’s Severe Weather team says to expect the heaviest rain on Thursday afternoon and evening. If you are driving on Thursday evening, be aware of flooded…

By JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG and JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding in the coming days from rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains In hard-hit Pensacola and surrounding Escambia County, where Sally’s floodwaters surged through downtown streets and lapped at car…

The truck was traveling on Interstate 10 over Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama when a strong wind from Hurricane Sally flipped onto its side. Fortunately, the driver only suffered minor injuries.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally’s rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, even as the storm’s remnants were forecast to dump up to a foot of rain and spread the threat of flooding to Georgia and the Carolinas. Coastal residents, meanwhile, looked to begin the recovery from a storm that turned streets into rivers, ripped roofs off buildings, knocked out power to hundreds of…

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Sally has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression, but that doesn’t mean it won’t cause problems Thursday and Friday in the Carolinas. The center of Sally is 50 miles southeast of Montgomery, Alabama, at 5 a.m., although the bands from the storm have already arrived in North Carolina. Sally will work through Georgia on Thursday morning and continue through the Carolinas on Friday. It will pick up speed, preventing us from getting…

State officials prepare for storms, flash flooding and damaging winds Thursday and Friday. Governor Roy Cooper will hold a press conference on Thursday about what the state is doing to prepare. Show Transcript WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME STRONGER WIND THAT COMES WITH THE STORM, TOMORROW.>>> TODAY, GOVERNOR COOPER WILL TALK ABOUT THE RAIN AND FLOODING RISK THAT WE ARE FACING TODAY AND INTO TOMORROW. HE WILL SPEAK AND 3 AND…

Teddy has become a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is currently located about 625 miles (1006 km) east-northeast of The Lesser Antilles. Teddy is moving toward the northwest at about 12 miles per hour (19 kph), the general motion it is expected to continue through the weekend. Additional strengthening is forecasted to happen during the next couple of days, and Teddy could become…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center The Triangle is under a flash food watch and a Level 2 risk severe storm Thursday into Friday evening. Remnants from Sally is bringing us excessive rainfall and flooding. Rain will be possible all day Thursday and Friday. WRAL’s Severe Weather team say to expect the heaviest rain on Thursday afternoon and evening. If you are driving in the Triangle on Thursday evening, be aware of flooded roads. Do not…