Weather Alerts For Ash, NC

Closest strike: 1.68 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...THE FLORIDA ATLANTIC COAST...AND THE CAROLINA COAST SUMMARY Isolated severe storms with locally damaging wind gusts and hail are possible this afternoon along the Carolina and Florida Atlantic coasts as well as portions of the lower Mississippi Valley. 20z Update The previous outlook largely remains on track with only minor adjustments made. Risk probabilities were removed across eastern GA where latest satellite imagery shows limited vertical development within a broad cumulus field, likely owing to poor ascent given very weak low-level convergence along a diffuse frontal zone. Latest HRRR/RRFS guidance depicts negligible convective signals across this region through tonight, suggesting the potential for severe thunderstorms is low. Severe wind probabilities were similarly trimmed across portions of southern LA where cold outflow associated with a residual MCV over the northern Gulf is spreading northward. Ahead of this boundary, temperatures warming into the low 80s within a moist air mass may still support convection sufficiently deep for a localized downburst concern (see MCD #706). Elsewhere, the previous forecast (below) remains on track.