Bill "eyes" the Carolinas..

[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

[MWatkins]

Ah stop complaining...the doppler estimates are always high anyway...LOL.

You're right...more rain and nasty tornados are on the way. And with systems like this they tend to drop in out of nowhere with little warning...but are also short-lived. Hard to get a good night's sleep in those conditions.

For once I'm glad to be in south Florida during hurricane season...at least right now.

MW

[Rainband]

Ah stop complaining...the doppler estimates are always high anyway...LOL.

You're right...more rain and nasty tornados are on the way. And with systems like this they tend to drop in out of nowhere with little warning...but are also short-lived. Hard to get a good night's sleep in those conditions.

For once I'm glad to be in south Florida during hurricane season...at least right now.

MW

Me too MW..I guess our 4th will be quiet..at least!!!

[Amanzi]

I hear ya !!!

Oh btw RB have you started to dry out a bit? I was getting ready to send out the navy seals to come rescue you

[Colin]

Thought this had a chance to hit me, but chances are rapidly decreasing as I see most of the rain shield beginning to hook to the ENE... oh well.

[grentz7721]

Myrlte Beach did suffer Bill's rains, and also produced a few T'Storms. :o

[Stormsfury]

Lower Coastal South Carolina (Colleton, Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester) escaped flash flooding rainfalls overnight, and today so far...

However, Hampton County (12:20 am) and Colleton Counties (1:00 am) both reported confirmed tornadoes which unfortunately did a lot a damage in their localized areas.

And today around lunchtime, 11:40 am to be exact ... a very strong squall line came through and produced winds up to 50 mph, very intense rainfalls for 30 minutes, and very dangerous lightning ... 2 lightning strikes occurred at the Cross County Processing and Distribution Facility ... one hitting a high voltage line and completely destroying a transformer (exploded) - which I saw this (damn, I needed my camera!) ... and 10 seconds later, a bolt hit the building itself ... the thunder blast lasted 20 seconds ...

A very vicious day ....

SF

[ColdFront77]

Mike... Joshua, Harry and I were following those storms in South Carolina, around your area and made mention to the Tornado Watch and Tornado Warning in effect for Colleton county in the chatroom early this morning.

Thank you for your report.

[Colin]

Wow SF......sounds like a vicious day indeed! :o It would've been cool if you were able to catch the transformer blowing up on the camera! :o You guys seem to be out of it now... thankfully.