Weather Alerts For Elizabeth City, NC

Closest strike: 3.43 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 SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS SUMMARY Severe storms capable of producing large hail and scattered severe wind gusts will spread east-southeastward across parts of the south-central High Plains into the overnight hours. Locally damaging gusts will remain possible across parts of the Mid-Atlantic tonight. South-central High Plains Between a broad large-scale trough over the northern CONUS and an upper ridge over the southern Plains, water-vapor imagery indicates a subtle/low-amplitude impulse tracking eastward across the central/southern High Plains -- embedded within a belt of enhanced midlevel westerly flow. This feature and accompanying 40-50 kt of effective shear will maintain an upscale-growing cluster of storms as is tracks east-southeastward across the southern/central High Plains into the overnight hours. In the near-term, large hail and locally severe gusts will be the main concerns, especially with the more separated updrafts/supercell structures evolving along the southern flank of the convective cluster in northeastern NM. With time, strengthening outflow and a nocturnal low-level jet will promote further upscale growth and scattered severe/damaging gusts. See Severe Thunderstorm Watch #323 for more information. Mid-Atlantic A cluster of thunderstorms tracking east-southeastward across the Mid-Atlantic will continue to weaken over the next couple hours as the boundary layer nocturnally stabilizes toward the coast. Eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas/western Missouri Positive low-level theta-e advection at the nose of a strengthening low-level jet will promote isolated thunderstorm development late in the period. Steep midlevel lapse rates atop a statically stable boundary layer will mostly favor elevated storms. Sufficient deep-layer shear will support convective organization, and severe hail will be possible with the stronger storms that evolve.