straight. because eventually it will start to take back off. until the storm does that, heavy rain is still in the forecast. you can see some of these really heavy rain bands. we ve got one just to the south of wilmington and one just to the north of wilmington. that s where you see the yellows and the orange colors on the radar. in some places, it s still coming down at 2 to 3 inches an hour. and, again, these folks, they re not just getting it for one hour, they re getting it hour after hour. this has to now be added on top of how much rain they ve already had. to put this in perspective, we have set a new record for the state of north carolina. for any tropical system to hit this state. the previous record was 24 inches. that was back with floyd in 1999. one location already in north carolina has picked up over 30 inches. the thing to understand, that location we re talking about is swansboro. it s still waiting there.
of north carolina but now pushing inland and also adding states like virginia and even south carolina to that list as well of where we are going to see that rain. we do still have some very heavy rain bands across portions just north of wilmington and to the south of wilmington. those rainfall rates are two to three inches an hour. you have to remember, you have to add that on top of what has already fallen. and we ve had some very impressive amounts. elizabethstown, 20 inches. emerald isle and morehead city, both nearly two feet of rain. swa swansboro has picked up 30 1/2 inches. the key factor for a lot of these cities is it s still raining, they could pick up an additional six, eight, or ten inches of rain on top of what they ve already had. the biggest difference is that that rain is pushing further inland. so cities like charlotte and raleigh are going to start to see some of those heavier bands
tr trees. the winds aren t particularly heavy here. our concern is the rain and continued flooding. i m in myrtle beach here. am i sending it back to stephanie in the studio? i m sending back to michelle grossman in the weather center. what s the update? you could pick up another four to five inches of rain in myrtle beach. here is what it looks like on radar. you can see the heavy rain train moving so slowly. we re seeing those darker colors, the reds and yellows and even purposes indicating heavy rains. we saw rains starting to fall on thursday around lunchtime. it poured yesterday. it s pouring today. it will be a little better tomorrow. myrtle beach in and out of heavy rain bands. i wanted to stop this for you. i want to show you this watch
didn t fall on top of her house but did fall on her front porch and see how the winds and the trees keep swaying behind me. we re going to continue to see that throughout the day and see them on the small roads. these are small neighborhoods where it s going to get hard to move around their cars and you have these patrol cars making sure that people are still hunkered down. it will be hard for them to get back to their homes. we ll see you again at light of day. thank you so much. here in studio, shauna is tracking the storm for us. i know it s a tropical storm and no longer a hurricane but that s something of a misnomer because it s still dangerous out there. exactly. lighter wind out there. that s in terms of the category of the storm. we still have a lot of rain moving in with the heavy rain bands. northern carolina is getting a lot of the rain bands. up to inches per hour which will
onshore winds. we still could potentially see a storm surge of 7 to 11 feet depending on where the storm and the core of the strongest winds come onshore from that northeast quadrant that bill was talking about. we had landfall at wrightsville beach and wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. still significant wind but now it s going to be the rain. the fact that it will slow down in some cases it could actually just stall out completely and not move. and bring these heavy rain bands that could total up to feet of rainfall. i know we ve gotten reports out of some areas atlantic beach where griff jenkins was reporting where he had to leave. over 30 inches of rain already in atlantic beach and we could get upwards of four feet in some isolated areas.