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More rain and storms will return to the forecast this week. A flood watch will go into effect Wednesday with areas west of Wake County likely to see the most rain.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: Level 2 risk of severe weather, more heavy rain and flood watch

Hello everyone, I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Tuesday night. Tomorrow is the WRAL weather alert day. We have a level 1 and 2 risk for severe weather. Damaging wind gusts will be the threat, and also with the heavy rainfall, there's been a flood watch that's been issued, and there's actually a pretty decent chance that we will see some flooding. As of right now, it's a medium risk for flooding. Of course, the areas that got inundated with rain. When tropical depression Shanel came on by, dumped up to 1 ft of rain in some spots, the ground is so saturated any additional thunderstorms will likely cause flood advisories and flash flood warnings. That's why you see the medium risk in yellow across much of the area, a lower risk toward Fayetteville, Goldsboro, and down east toward Greenville. So with that being said, a flood watch has been issued for parts of the viewing area from South Hill through Warrenton. All the way to Roxboro, Durham, Siler City, Sanford, Southern Pines. Now, even though Raleigh and Lillington and Smithfield and Fayetteville and Points East are not on the watch, it doesn't mean we couldn't see flood advisories are flooding ourselves. It's more likely it'll be in the area where there was that saturating rainfall on Sunday. We also over part of the area are in a level 2 threat for severe weather from Raleigh south and east toward Wayne County, Goldsboro, and Samson County, Clinton's in a level 1 threat. We See that level 2 threat, there may be a severe thunderstorm watch issued at some point, most likely later in the afternoon and into the evening. Watch out for localized flooding as well. Quiet at the bus stop in the morning, it's partly to mostly cloudy. The low temperatures 77, 82 by 10 a.m. and tomorrow's high, we expect about 93 compared to the 97 we saw today. Thunderstorms more focused late in the afternoon and more likely into the evening. So that means 67. 910 o'clock tomorrow night we could see scattered showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall and some severe weather. Overnight it's quiet, it's warm and muggy. Lows will be in the 70s, 78 in Clinton and Goldsboro, 77 in Raleigh, 73 at Roxboro, and then some severe storms possible. Again, it's very late in the day and more likely into the evening, and with additional cloud cover and coverage of storms, probably won't be quite so hot as what we had today. That's our forecast update. Have a wonderful night. I'll see you tomorrow.

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Wednesday, 7/9, will be another WRAL Weather Alert Day due to a flood watch and leve 2 severe weather risks.

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