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Memorial Day is a WRAL Weather Alert Day, with the entire state under Level 2 risk for severe storms.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: Storms possible at 'any point' today, Level 2 risk for isolated tornadoes, hail

Hi, meteorologist Brian Schrader in the WRL severe weather center. It is the WRL weather alert day. Let's talk about what we are expecting later this afternoon. I think that is the main time frame for our severe weather today, later in the afternoon and through the evening, damaging winds, large hail and maybe even a tornado or two. All are possible with storms that developed today. And we're talking about the entire Wral viewing area. There's a big section of the Mid Atlantic and southeastern states that are under a level two of five for severe weather and elevated risk. So definitely need to pay attention today if you're going to be outside, as I mentioned, an isolated tornado or two, certainly on the table as we take a look at the tornado risk from the storm prediction center today, that brown area from the eastern side of Wake County out toward the coast, that's where we have a 5% chance of a tornado. Uh And that doesn't sound like much, but that is significant for this area, especially this time of year. That means that there's a 5% chance there could be a tornado within 25 miles of any given point in that area. So you need to take that seriously. We can't rule out tornadoes anywhere else in the viewing area. But right now it looks like the best chance of that would be east of the triangle. Let's take a look at two versions of Futurecast. Here's the first one that has some showers and thunderstorms moving into the area maybe around three or four this afternoon. Continuing as we head toward 56 and seven o'clock. So this indicates that we could see that thunderstorm window opening around two or three continuing on into the evening hours. Here's another version of future cast that paints a similar picture where we have some showers and thunderstorms moving in around two or three this afternoon and then it clears out of here by six o'clock tonight. So just to be conservative, I'm going to say that our window for seeing severe weather is from around two or three this afternoon on until about nine or 10 o'clock tonight. High temperature around 90 degrees today. Once this front passes and our storm threat ends, we have a nice week ahead with temperatures cooling to around 80 degrees with lower humidity.

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Ben Miller and Devin Obee hit grand slams and Miller added a two-run shot as No. 6 seed Duke rolled to a 16-4 victory over fifth-seeded Florida State on Sunday in the championship game of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, earning the Blue Devils a regional berth.

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