Tropical Storm Debby Producing Flooding Rain And Damaging Wind Across The Region

Nicole Madden,

Weather Headlines

  • Flash Flooding Threat

  • Damaging Wind Gusts

  • River Flooding

  • Conditions Improve Friday

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Discussion

TS Debby is causing extensive flooding across the Carolinas this morning including a flash flood emergency outside of Lumberton. Locally flash flood warnings are in effect for Union, Anson, Richmond and Stanly Counties as well as parts of Lancaster and Chesterfield Counties. More than 3-4” has fallen in parts of these areas with more heavy rain to come.

Flood Watch in effect for just about the entire region through Friday morning with up to 4-6”+ for areas near and east of I-77. The foothills could see 2-4” with 1-2” for the mountains.

Wind Advisory in effect through Thursday afternoon for the Piedmont. Gusts are also strong up to 30-40 mph, with trees down across the area and power outages stacking up.

Debby will weaken over the next few hours, with winds dying down this evening, but heavy rain remaining a threat. The center of Debby will pass east of Charlotte later this evening with conditions improving through Friday as the storm races toward the northeast.