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Carolinas under the gun now ...

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:52 pm
by Stormsfury
The Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina/TN are catching added lift from Bill and apparently a deformation zone has set up across from the Mountains from just east of Morristown, TN to east of Knoxville ... other bands and solid rains continue across the Western Carolinas, but unfortunately the mountains are disrupting doppler radar estimated rainfalls ...

A swath of 6"-10" rainfalls have occurred from Eastern LA through Southern/Eastern MS, Central/Southern AL, GA, and working into the Carolinas though the Carolinas haven't been as heavy as the moisture axis spreads out with Bill's transition to an extratropical system ...

A tornado watch continues in Eastern GA/Southern SC .. primarily in association with a long-lived line of thunderstorms currently straddling the Savannah River, just east/southeast of Augusta, GA extending southward to N of Statesboro, GA moving ENE ...

http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kclx.shtml