Alex Advisories

[krisj]

In Charleston it is mostly sunny. We had some light rain this morning, but it isn't even too windy out.

[Suncat]

In Raleigh, rain bands are coming through with heavy rains at times. Very muggy between each shower. There has been some thunder with these showers, too.

The ground is getting saturated and we may have some local street flooding before this is over

[obxicane]

Here in Kill Devil Hills it's about 80, hardly any breeze and muggy as heck. As Gary said it's mostly cloudy, not really a bad day at all.

[Lowpressure]

LOL!! That's ok. But there is much discretion used with Hurricane Watches. The reason IMO they are not up is because the west side of Alex is weak... and winds are not above 40 mph.

Totally agreed with you Yoda. Good call. If he gets concentric, things might change.

[Trader Ron]

Air force Met..great reply. I love the people who bash the experts. Dr Lyons doesn't have the charisma that Mr Hope had,but he is one smart guy. I'm always impressed with anyone that has a PHD.

[Hurricanehink]

It really should. Even though it isn't forecasted to become a hurricane before heading out to sea, there is still a probability. Bill last year had Hurricane Watches, but it was just for the chance. Maybe at 5 it will.

[yoda]

NO CHANCE

[bjacobs99]

Issued at: 3:00 PM EDT 8/2/04, expires at: 5:00 AM EDT 8/3/04

The NWS has issued a flash flood watch for the Areas of cumberland, Sampson, Harnett, Wayne, Johnston, Wilson, edgecombe, Nash And Halifax counties. The watch is in effect through tonight until 500 am edt Tuesday morning.
A flow of air around the low pressure center associated with alex continues to bring tropical moisture into central north carolina from the east. Numerous showers with locally heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms will continue to move across the coastal plain and eastern sandhills counties of central north carolina through tonight. Locally very heavy rainfall rates exceeding one inch an hour can be expected in the watch area.
Repetitive heavy showers over the same areas could lead to localized cumulative rainfall totals in excess of 3 inches in a short period of time. This amount of rain in the span of 1 or 2 hours may flood small streams, creeks and other drainage areas in the watch area.
Also, highway intersections and underpasses are susceptible to flooding and motorists should use extreme caution to avoid hydroplaning and seek alternate routes around flooded roadways. People in the watch area should stay advised of latest weather conditions and be prepared for immediate action should heavy rains and flash flooding occur.
Stay tuned to noaa weather radio and other local media for further details or updates.


For more details, tune to WRAL-TV and the WRAL WeatherCenter Channel (channel 262 on digital cable and channel 5.3 on digital receivers).

[Lindaloo]

Great site and great work Lindaloo! Thank you!

Thank you!! And pardon my manners, but welcome to S2K. Enjoy and have fun!!

[Wolfman21]

Rain bands across interior NC are becoming very apparent

[Wolfman21]

just started pouring down rain here in Roxboro........ man can this thing drop some rain?? Sheesh, one of the harder downpours ive ever seen

[hurricanedude]

A Hurricane Watch is only issued if Hurricane conditions are possible in the next 48 hours......not just because a storm may develop into a hurricane. Even if and thats a big if...it ever makes it to cane force, absolutely no Hurricane conditions will affect land.....and very minimal TS effects....the worse part of this and all storms is the eastern side...so just about all this storm belongs to the fishies!!

[vbhoutex]

BTW, if everyone will note in the vortex message posted in another thread, ("An eye has popped-Hurricane shortly")it reads "open SE" which means there is not an eye or eyewall as of that vortex message.

Your wrong, that means there is an eye forming just not closed, open on the SE side. Read Air Force Met's message again.

L. EYE CHARACTER. This is a brief description of what the eye looks like on radar. "CLOSED WALL" if the eye is completely surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms: the wall cloud. "OPEN NE" means there is a break in the wall to the northeast, etc. If the eye is not at least 50% surrounded by a wall cloud, this item and Item M will be reported as "NA" (Not Applicable).

Thank you for correcting me! I don't have my "how to read vortex messages" info here at work and I haven't memorized it either! I guess I better make a copy if I am going to post comments.

[hurricanedude]

DUDE LOVES LINDA....

[NC George]

2nd rainband in 2 hours just hit my area. Torrential downpours for 5 or so minutes, then heavy rain for 15 minutes or so, then slacking off to no rain. Wind increased noticably from gentle breeze right before the rain started, but still not very strong (no more than 15-20 mph in gusts.) Some thunder with this second rainband, several large nearby strikes as rain is ending.

[The Dark Knight]

I agree.....

[chadtm80]

I agree.....

and who is it you agree with.. lol

[ncweatherwizard]

But I'm a little less aggressive with intensity, but still have a minimal hurricane in 36 hours.

http://www.nencweather.com/tropicalweather/alex.html

[Wolfman21]

Hurricane Watch recommended from Cape Fear, NC, to Cape Hatteras, NC.

Theres ur Hurricane Watch

[bjacobs99]

another heavy rain band is approaching goldsboro now..also the jets at seymour-johnson have started to leave..this is never a good sign