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Hurricane warning issued for Carolinas as strengthening Isaias takes aim on East Coast

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While Florida may have been spared the worst of Tropical Storm Isaias, that won’t be the case for the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.…
While Florida may have been spared the worst of Tropical Storm Isaias, that won’t be the case for the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U. S.
Isaias is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane in the Carolinas on Monday night and will bring dangerous storm surge and flash flooding to most of the Eastern Seaboard over the next few days, the National Weather Service said.
The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning from South Santee River, South Carolina, to Surf City, North Carolina, meaning winds of at least 74 mph are expected there.
“We are forecasting it to become a hurricane before it reaches the coast this evening,” senior hurricane specialist Daniel Brown said. “It’s forecast to produce a dangerous storm surge of 3 to 5 feet in portions of North and South Carolina.”
pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs – could bring heavy rains, too – up to 8 inches in spots as it moves up the coast, Brown said, and “all those rains could produce flash flooding across portions of eastern Carolinas and mid-Atlantic, and even in the northeast U.

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