hilton head and the buford area. here s the new update from the hurricane center. we re at 75 miles per hour. we re at the weakest we possibly can be for a category 1 hurricane. and after this it will drop down to a tropical storm. it s still accelerating to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. and is now getting very close to the macon area. and eventually by tomorrow morning it will be near augusta. and it s still a very big large rain shield with this. here s the new forecast path. again, we re not expecting a lot of damage from here on out. so it doesn t really matter where the center goes over. we may actually see stronger gusts along the coast with that southerly inflow coming off the water tomorrow morning. so lake charleston could have and hilton head 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds coming off the water and the surf will be all turned up also. but the storm path will take it into the carolinas here. winds not a big deal as we said, 40 to 45-mile-per-hour winds, that s not going t
we have a flash flood emergency. we alsoville i still have occasional tornado warnings through the region. everywhere in red is under a flood warning, which almost all of eastern carolina at this point. that will continue to be a big issue as we go throughout the rest of the storm. over here, i will show you the storm path. as we go throughout the next two, three days, it slow drifts through south carolina, up through the mountains on sunday. we could have flooding problems there. if i was to tell you that charlotte, north carolina, one of the biggest cities in the east coast is going to get 15 inches of rain over the next three days, that would be a big story all by itself. it hasn t begun there yet. that could be a huge issue and story as we go through the weekend. here s our future radar. this predicts where the storm will be. we spin it into areas of central portions of south carolina. this is as we go through noon saturday, notice heavy band of rains sitting near the wilmingto
the worse of it the neuse river, the trent river all the way up into areas even washington had some problems too on the tar river. the new burn area. they were having people volunteering to line up and bring boats in to help people. at one point they had 150 people on a waiting list to get rescued. the storm continues to spin. the emerald isle, this band has been pounding them relentlessly for about 36 hours now. that is where the two feet of rain has happened. we have a flash flood emergency for that area for carter and craven counties. we also still have tornado warnings in the region. everywhere in red is in a flood warning which is pretty much all of eastern north carolina. that is going to continue to be a big issue as we go throughout the rest of the storm. over here i will show you the storm path. as we go throughout the next two to three days it slow drifts through south carolina. then up through the mountains on sunday. we could have flooding problems
lineup and bring boats in to help people. at one point they had 150 people on a waiting list to get rescued. the storm continues to spin. this band has been just sitting here pounding them for about 36 hours now. that is where the two feet of rain has happened. we have a flash flood emergency for that area. we also still have tornado warnings in the region. everywhere in red is in a flood warning which is pretty much all of eastern north carolina. that is going to continue to be a big issue as we go throughout the rest of the storm. over here i will show you the storm path. as we go throughout the next two to three days it slow drifts through south carolina. we could have flooding problems there. if i was to tell you that charlotte, north carolina, one of the biggest cities in the east coast is going to get 15 inches of rain over the next three days that would be a big story all by itself. it hasn t begun there yet. that could be a huge issue and a
earlier. wind gauge stopped working by the way. we had some reports near the coastal areas around 100. that s to be expected. the actual storm path, this is the new one that s just out from the hurricane center, they have it at 8:00 a.m. just off the coast. so they re still thinking somewhere late tomorrow morning as we go throughout the early morning hours after sunrise. we could get that landfall. it s really going to be just for the history books. we re not going to see a huge amount of wind damage right where the eye is because it s not that kind of storm. the hurricane force winds extend 80 miles from the center even with a category 1 which is very unusual. so it s a large storm. think of a storm almost like a hurricane sandy was. that was only a 1, but it did considerable storm surge damage, much more than you d expect with a category 1. then from this point on we re going to drift the storm through south carolina, really haven t seen any changes with the storm surge. just becaus