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Wednesday was quite the day for severe weather and storms with more on the way for Thursday. A heat advisory coupled with more scattered storm chances Thursday has prompted another WRAL Weather Alert Day. 

More extreme heat and more possible storms on the way for Thursday

<p>Hello everyone. I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Wednesday night. We have another WREO weather alert day for the day Thursday. There's a heat advisory that's in effect. Also, a level one risk for severe weather with damaging winds and hail. The timing for the storms 1 o'clock to about 6 o'clock. A heat advisory, the heat index at or above 106 degrees. So it's gonna be another hot one tomorrow, not quite as hot as the 99 we had today. So there's no extreme heat warning. It's a heat advisory for some locations. The heat index could go up to 109. This is from about 11 a.m. to about 70 p.m. So if you work outside for a living, you know what to expect. It may not feel quite so hot as compared to what we had today. Again, it was 99 at RDU. We didn't reach the record high. It was 100 in Fayetteville. So here is the outline for the severe risk. Tomorrow, every location in our viewing area is in that level 1 risk. Damaging winds and a thunderstorm can't be ruled out, hail and lightning, and the big heat tomorrow will go into fueling some big storms like we had today, but I don't think they're going to be as widespread as what we saw today. It's about a 30% chance for a storm at noon and 1 o'clock, 40% at 2 to 5 o'clock, 30% for 67, and 8 o'clock. So that's what we're gonna be watching out for. So overnight, we'll watch out for a stray storm. I think it would be more likely in the northern counties, 74 and Raleigh 7. at Fayetteville, 74 at Rocky Mount, and then for the day on Thursday, upper 90s, mid to upper 90s, I should say, 97 in Raleigh 96 in Fayetteville, 97 at Rocky Mountain. And again, we do have that WREO weather alert day. That's our forecast update. See you tomorrow night.</p>

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