Storm, Flooding Risk Thursday From Virginia to Louisiana

By Courtney Spamer, Meteorologist

July 11,2013; 5:48PM,EDT

 

 

Part of the I-95 corridor will continue to receive drenching downpours, gusty thunderstorms and the potential for flash flooding Thursday evening.
Cities that should be on the lookout for weather-related travel problems from the drenching storms include Norfolk, Va., Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., Columbia and Greenville, S.C., Atlanta, Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La.
A front slowly approaching the area will focus the activity in a swath from southeastern Virginia to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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The main threat on Thursday will be the potential for flash, urban and small stream flooding associated with downpours from these storms.
Moisture coming up from the Gulf of Mexico this July has already brought an excess of rain to much of the mid-Atlantic. The heavy storms Thursday will re-aggravate the flooding problems from earlier in the month.

The strongest storms have the potential to bring isolated wind gusts to 60 mph, which are strong enough to down large tree limbs and cause sporadic power outages.
Since the front focusing the rainfall Thursday will stall and reverse its motion from earlier in the week, look for showers, thunderstorms and the risk of flooding to expand westward once again to the central and southern Appalachians into the weekend.