FIRST ALERT: Nicole weakens to tropical depression, tornado risk continues - Live 5 News WCSC

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - The National Weather Service says Nicole has weakened to a tropical depression.

Our meteorologists accidental there’s inactive a flimsy tornado hazard for the Lowcountry.

The tornado ticker volition past until 2 a.m. Friday and includes Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Orangeburg and Williamsburg Counties.

Earlier successful the day, a tornado informing for Colleton and Dorchester Counties expired.

A terrible thunderstorm susceptible of producing a tornado was located astatine 5:17 p.m. adjacent Knightsville, moving northwest astatine 45 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The informing expired astatine 5:45 p.m.

A tropical tempest informing expired for Charleston, Berkeley and coastal Colleton Counties Thursday afternoon. However, the waters disconnected the seashore from Jasper County to the Charleston-Georgetown enactment are inactive nether a tropical tempest warning.

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Live 5 Meteorologist Joey Sovine says gusts to tropical tempest unit are imaginable Wednesday done Friday.

A tropical tempest informing means that tropical tempest conditions are expected determination wrong the informing area.

A tornado ticker means conditions are favorable for tornadoes to form, but does not bespeak that immoderate existent tornadoes person been detected.

Tropical Storm Nicole has sent aggregate homes collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean. Nicole made landfall arsenic a hurricane aboriginal Thursday adjacent Vero Beach, Florida, but the brunt of the harm was on the East Coast good northbound of there, successful the Daytona Beach area. Its damaging coastal surge was hitting beachfront properties successful Daytona Beach Shores that mislaid their past protections during Hurricane Ian.

The Live 5 Weather squad declared Thursday and Friday arsenic First Alert Weather Days due to the fact that of imaginable impacts from the storm.

Sovine says coastal flooding is apt done Friday astir precocious tides with formation erosion and precocious surf besides likely.

Sovine said dense rainfall could beryllium imaginable with rainfall totals betwixt 1 and 4 inches. Breezy conditions could hap done Friday and winds whitethorn occasionally gust to, oregon over, 40 mph adjacent the coast.

Nicole became the 14th named tempest of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane play connected Monday.

As of 7 p.m., Nicole remained a tropical tempest with its halfway located adjacent latitude 30 northbound and longitude 83.8 west, astir 40 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The tempest was moving to the northwest astatine 15 mph and its estimated minimum cardinal unit is 990 mb oregon 29.24 inches.

Forecasters accidental a crook toward the northwest and north-northwest is expected aboriginal Thursday and Thursday night, followed by an acceleration toward the northbound and north-northeast connected Friday.

On the forecast track, the halfway of Nicole volition determination crossed cardinal Florida this morning, perchance look implicit the acold northeastern Gulf of Mexico Monday afternoon, and past determination crossed the Florida panhandle and Georgia Thursday nighttime and connected Friday.

Nicole is inactive a ample tropical tempest but maximum sustained winds person decreased to adjacent 45 mph with higher gusts.

City of Charleston officials accidental they volition beryllium intimately monitoring the tropical storm. Crews person already begun preparing for imaginable tempest impacts.

“Residents are asked to support an oculus connected reliable section upwind reports implicit the adjacent fewer days,” Emergency Management Director Ben Almquist said successful a quality release. “If atrocious conditions bash arise, citizens are advised to travel the guidance of Emergency Management officials and, arsenic always, motorists should debar driving done precocious h2o erstwhile they brushwood it.”

The city’s stormwater section has prepared impermanent pumps for low-lying areas. Crews volition besides beryllium cleaning retired ditches and drains successful flood-prone areas.

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season runs done Nov. 30.

Sprawling Tropical Storm Nicole drenching Florida, Georgia

Nicole made landfall adjacent Vero Beach arsenic a Category 1 hurricane astatine astir 3 a.m. Thursday, much than a 100 miles southbound of Daytona Beach Shores, earlier its maximum sustained winds dropped to 60 mph, the Miami-based halfway said. The tempest was centered astir 30 miles southeast of Orlando. It was moving west-northwest adjacent 14 mph.

Robbie Berg, a hurricane specializer astatine the National Hurricane Center successful Miami advised radical to recognize that hazards from Tropical Storm Nicole “will beryllium crossed the authorities of Florida today.”

Nicole came could concisely look implicit the northeastern country of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday day earlier moving implicit the Florida Panhandle and Georgia, helium said.

The tempest near southbound Florida sunny and calm arsenic it moved north, but could dump arsenic overmuch arsenic 6 inches of rainfall implicit the Blue Ridge Mountains by Friday, the hurricane halfway said.

Nicole became a hurricane Wednesday evening arsenic it slammed into Grand Bahama Island. It was the archetypal to deed the Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 tempest that devastated the archipelago successful 2019.

For storm-weary Floridians, it is lone the 3rd November hurricane to deed their shores since recordkeeping began successful 1853. The erstwhile ones were the 1935 Yankee Hurricane and Hurricane Kate successful 1985.

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