A weather alert was issued by the NWS Raleigh NC on Friday at 3:47 a.m. for thunderstorms until 4:30 a.m. The alert is for Franklin, Nash, Edgecombe, Wake, Johnston and Wilson counties.
A powerful storm system pummeled Hawaii Thursday with flash flooding, damaging wind gusts, severe thunderstorms and blizzard-like conditions on the high mountain peaks.