The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the South Carolina coast due to the formation of a tropical depression.
The warning is for citizens from Edisto Beach northeastward to South Santee River.
The warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected this evening, within the next 12 hours.
The weather service said some slight strengthening is expected today, and the depression is forecast to become a tropical storm before it makes landfall. Rapid weakening is forecast after landfall occurs.
Heavy rainfall is possible from coastal southern South Carolina and Georgia, inland across the Piedmont of Georgia into northeast Alabama. Isolated flooding is possible across urban areas of the southern South Carolina and Georgia coasts.
The depression is moving toward the west-northwest near 16 mph (26 km/h) and this general motion is expected to continue for the next couple of days. On the forecast track, the center of the tropical cyclone should make landfall along coast of South Carolina in the warning area later this evening.
Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph with higher gusts.
Tropical storm conditions are expected to first reach the coast within the warning area by late this afternoon, making outside preparations difficult or dangerous.
The depression could produce 1 to 3 inches of rainfall with locally higher amounts along the immediate coasts of Georgia and southern South Carolina. The NHC noted that this region has been dry, limiting potential widespread flooding impacts, however, local flooding, especially in urban areas along the southern South Carolina and Georgia coasts, is possible.
Farther inland, 1 to 2 inches of rainfall is possible across upstate South Carolina, the Piedmont of Georgia, and into northeastern Alabama.
The combination of storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline. The water could reach 1 to 3 feet above ground from Port Royal Sound to South Santee River.
Topics Catastrophe Natural Disasters Windstorm South Carolina
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