Weather Impact Day Sunday in North Carolina, rain, severe wind risk, tornado chance in the Triad
NORTH UP TOWARD THE MOUNT AIRY REGION. SO 51 TOMORROW MORNING, MILDER TEMPERATURES TO START. A COUPLE OF PATCHY SHOWERS, MAYBE SOME FOG OUT THERE TOO FOR YOU TO START ON YOUR SATURDAY. WE TAKE YOU UP TO ABOUT 75 DEGREES. WINDS ARE GOING TO BE STRONG AND THEY GET BREEZIER AS THE DAY GOES ON. AND AS THAT FRONT APPROACHES. NOW 50 DEGREES IN THE FOOTHILLS AND WE’LL KEEP A RAIN CHANCE IN FOR YOU. YOU’RE GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE ELEMENTS AS WE GET SOME MOISTURE GOING AHEAD OF THAT FRONT, COMING IN FROM AREAS OF TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA WILL BE WATCHING FOR SOME SPOTTY SHOWER POSSIBILITIES. SO TEMPERATURES FROM 50 TO NEAR 72 DEGREES TO NEAR 73 LATE AFTERNOON WITH 48 DEGREES IN THE MOUNTAINS. WE’LL TAKE YOU UP TO ABOUT 63, AND WINDS ARE OUT OF THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST. SO IT’S GOING TO PUSH IN A LITTLE BIT OF MOISTURE FROM THE ATLANTIC. AND THAT COULD KEEP US IN A LITTLE BIT OF DRIZZLE FROM TIME TO TIME. BUT I DO THINK YOU’LL SEE MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS WITH NOT A LOT OF MEASURABLE RAIN, AT LEAST ON THE GROUND. SO SATURDAY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET OUR ERRANDS DONE. THIS IS A MESS THOUGH. IF YOU HAVE FLIGHTS OUT TOMORROW FROM AREAS OF TENNESSEE, SOUTH OUT THROUGH MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, EVEN INTO GEORGIA, I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE PREPARING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME DELAYS. AND IF YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL BY DRIVING IN THE WEST OR SOUTHWEST DIRECTION, YOU COULD RUN INTO SEVERE STORMS. TONIGHT, WE’VE GOT A LINE OF TORNADO WARNINGS. WE HAVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES AS WELL AS TORNADO WATCHES UP FOR A GOOD PORTION OF THE COUNTRY TONIGHT, SITTING FROM THE MIDWEST AND HEADING INTO THE DEEP SOUTH OF THIS FAR SOUTH AS NORTHERN ARKANSAS RIGHT NOW. AND THAT AREA BEGINS TO SHIFT DOWN TO THE SOUTH TOMORROW FOR THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT, AND EVENTUALLY MOVES OUR WAY BY SATURDAY NIGHT, OVERNIGHT INTO SUNDAY, WE START TO WATCH FOR THE CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN DAMAGING WIND THREAT. SO STRAIGHT LINE TORNADOES OR STRAIGHT LINE? EXCUSE ME. WIND DAMAGE. EXCUSE ME. AS WE SEE THOSE 60 MILE AN HOUR GUSTS OR SO COME IN AND THEN TORNADOES WILL BE NEXT ON THE LIST. BUT JUST A FEW, HOPEFULLY JUST ISOLATED IN NATURE AND DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN EVERYONE WILL SEE THOSE SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAKS. ALL OF THIS IS DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH IS WORKED OUT TO THE SOUTH ON OUR SATURDAY, AND THEN HOW MUCH IT MOVES EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS. DO WE STILL HAVE THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS ALOFT? ALSO AT THE SAME TIME, TO GET EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND BRING IN THAT DAMAGING WIND THREAT? SO WE’RE GOING TO BE WATCHING FOR THIS CAREFULLY SATURDAY THOUGH. WHAT A MESS OUT THERE. IT’S GOING TO BE A DAY. WE’VE GOT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS, MOST LIKELY LATER IN THE AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING FOR PARTS OF TENNESSEE, THROUGH NASHVILLE. AND I THINK MOST OF THAT ACTIVITY IS GOING TO START TO PUSH EAST NOW. THE TIMING COULD SHIFT FOR US. IT COULD PICK UP A LITTLE BIT MORE INTENSITY, MAYBE MOVE IN SOONER. AND THAT’S WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO WATCH FOR. SO METEOROLOGIST DYLAN, HEATHER IS IN THE MORNING WITH YOU. I’LL BE IN TRACKING THIS ALL AFTERNOON TO AND THROUGH THE LATE NIGHT HOURS. SO WE’LL BE WATCHING FOR THIS. YOU CAN SEE A MARGINAL RISK AREA STARTS TO PUSH OUR WAY LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. AND THEN FOR A SLIGHT RISK AREA UP OVER THE MOUNTAINS THAT THEN PUSHES EAST. SO TRAVEL DOWN TO THE SOUTH AND WEST THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ON YOUR SATURDAY IS PRETTY DANGEROUS. FROM GEORGIA TO TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA, AND FLYING MAY ALSO BE DANGEROUS AT TIMES, SO WATCH FOR THOSE DELAYS. POTENTIALLY. YOU’VE GOT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITIES OUT THERE REALLY. MAINLY EARLY MORNING SUNDAY. AND THEN THE QUESTION IS CAN WE HOLD SOME OF THIS ACTION TOGETHER LATER IN THE DAY TO BRING IN ANOTHER ROUND? DOES LOOK LIKE IT WILL BE BETWEEN ABOUT 4 A.M. ALL THE WAY TO ABOUT NOONTIME, BEFORE WE CAN START TO CLEAR THAT LINE, AND THEN SOME MORE SHOWERS MAY FORM RIGHT AHEAD OF THE SECOND FRONT, AND THAT COULD CREATE SOME ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER. ALSO, FOR FOLKS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN TRIAD. SO HERE’S A SEVEN DAY FORECAST, FOLKS. QUICK LOOK 70S OUT THERE ON YOUR SUNDAY, THEN DROPPING INTO 60S ON SAINT PATRICK’S DAY. WE’RE CLEAR AND A LITTLE COOLER, THEN
Weather Impact Day Sunday in North Carolina, rain, severe wind risk, tornado chance in the Triad
Updated: 2:36 AM EDT Mar 15, 2025
We are preparing for a warm and spring-like weekend that will include a WXII 12 First Warning Weather Impact Day on Sunday for the risk of isolated severe storms. There is still some uncertainty for Sunday’s extend of severe storm threats in North Carolina as we track a large weather system set to bring potentially deadly tornadoes to the Deep South on Saturday. Severe storm threatsWind impactsAfter storms pass midday on Sunday, non-thunderstorm wind gusts between 30-40 mph are likely. Sporadic power outages are expected through Sunday night as a result of the strong gusts taking down small trees and branches.Rain impactsRainfall may become torrential early Sunday morning if the storm is able to maintain intensity in North Carolina after moving east of the mountains. Rainfall totals of more than one inch are likely in the mountains and where some areas of the Foothills and Piedmont Triad receive strong to severe storms. On average, rainfall may be under three-tenths of an inch on the current storm track. TimingFind the hour-by-hour forecast here as storms are set to arrive overnight Saturday into Sunday morning with a slight risk of severe thunderstorms in most of North Carolina. Rain may begin in the mountains as early as 2 a.m. Rain becomes likely after 7 a.m. in the Piedmont Triad until midday. Isolated storms may develop in the southeastern Triad late afternoon Sunday, but most areas will clear east of the mountains after 1 p.m. Check in with us Saturday at 10 and 11 p.m. for the latest on storm timing and again early Sunday morning with Meteorologist Dylan Huddler.
We are preparing for a warm and spring-like weekend that will include a WXII 12 First Warning Weather Impact Day on Sunday for the risk of isolated severe storms. There is still some uncertainty for Sunday’s extend of severe storm threats in North Carolina as we track a large weather system set to bring potentially deadly tornadoes to the Deep South on Saturday.
Severe storm threats
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Wind impacts
After storms pass midday on Sunday, non-thunderstorm wind gusts between 30-40 mph are likely. Sporadic power outages are expected through Sunday night as a result of the strong gusts taking down small trees and branches.
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Rain impacts
Rainfall may become torrential early Sunday morning if the storm is able to maintain intensity in North Carolina after moving east of the mountains. Rainfall totals of more than one inch are likely in the mountains and where some areas of the Foothills and Piedmont Triad receive strong to severe storms. On average, rainfall may be under three-tenths of an inch on the current storm track.
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Timing
Find the hour-by-hour forecast here as storms are set to arrive overnight Saturday into Sunday morning with a slight risk of severe thunderstorms in most of North Carolina. Rain may begin in the mountains as early as 2 a.m. Rain becomes likely after 7 a.m. in the Piedmont Triad until midday. Isolated storms may develop in the southeastern Triad late afternoon Sunday, but most areas will clear east of the mountains after 1 p.m.
Check in with us Saturday at 10 and 11 p.m. for the latest on storm timing and again early Sunday morning with Meteorologist Dylan Huddler.
