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Strong-to-severe storms are possible later in the day Thursday with damaging wind gusts and flash flooding being the main threats.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: More storms, flooding possible Thursday evening

<p>I'm WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. We've got some storms to our east and storms to our west, and we're going to be focusing in on the storms to our west. Those are set to arrive later this afternoon and evening, even into early tonight. A flood watch does remain in effect through tonight. This is for the entire area. However, not everybody is going to be dealing with flooding. A couple Spots that see the heaviest rain could see some localized flooding or flash flooding. The flood risk today a medium risk. Yesterday it was a high risk for areas like Durham where we did have the flash flooding reported, but this is still a concern for us. We'll be watching the radar closely for you on WREL News and WREL News plus all throughout the afternoon and evening. The severe weather threat. Also a little bit lower than yesterday. It's a level 1 out of 5 risk. The concern here would be for the threat for 40 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts. Storm chances are likely to peak after about 7 o'clock tonight, and that's when we've got a 60% chance of storms. So it's still not a washout, kind of a night where everyone sees rain. We wake up in the morning, it should be dry but cloudy to start.</p>

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