A low pressure system designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight dropped heavy rain over parts of North Carolina on Monday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight was located at latitude 33.1\u00b0N and longitude 78.3\u00b0W which put the center about 60 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina.\u00a0 The low pressure system was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from South Santee River, South Carolina to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A low pressure system designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight dropped heavy rain over the area near Cape Fear, North Carolina.\u00a0 Even though the center of circulation was still over the Atlantic Ocean, converging wind flows in the northern side of the low pressure system generated a band of persistent heavy rain.\u00a0 Heavy rain fell over eastern South Carolina, and central and eastern North Carolina.\u00a0 Widespread flooding was reported in Carolina Beach.<\/p>\n Flash Flood Warnings were in effect for Columbus County, Brunswick County and Bladen County.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The low pressure system designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight will move around the southwestern part of high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of the low pressure system will move near the border between South Carolina and North Carolina.<\/p>\n The low pressure system designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight will weaken steadily as it moves farther inland.\u00a0 Even though the low pressure system will weaken, it will continue to drop heavy rain over parts of North Carolina.\u00a0 Persistent heavy rain is likely to cause additional flooding.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Tropical Depression Gordon continued to spin east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Gordon was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 48.1\u00b0W which put the center about 985 miles (1580 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Gordon was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A low pressure system designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight dropped heavy rain over parts of North Carolina on Monday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight was located at latitude 33.1\u00b0N and longitude 78.3\u00b0W which put the center about 60 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Cape Fear, North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[483,172,160,171,3726,3725,1239,3727,3724,1218,140,100,3723,3722,99,2027,1226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21137,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions\/21137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}