Hurricane Dorian remains a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained
winds of 200mph. While the wind speeds have come down, strong wind
gusts and very heavy rainfall continue to impact parts of the South
Carolina and North Carolina coastline.
Early Thursday morning the outer rain bands of Dorian not only produced
very heavy rain, but numerous tornadoes. Severe weather is fairly
common with a land falling, or near land falling, hurricane. That's
because as the storms and wind associated with the storms move onshore
the land creates a little more friction, slowing down the winds near the
surface. This develops a little more shear in the atmosphere allowing
the quick spin up tornadoes to develop. There are currently no active
tornado warnings, but several Flash Flood Warnings have been issued
along the coast of North Carolina.
The eye of the hurricane remains just off-shore with is moving to the
northeast around 13 mph. The storm is forecast to weaken to a Category
One hurricane sometime Friday before moving further north into the
Atlantic.
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