• Special Weather Statement for Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • Special Weather Statement issued September 26 at 3:45PM EDT by NWS
  • Effective: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 2 p.m.
  • Expires: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 3:30 p.m.

  • ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH INTENSE LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL
    IMPACT WESTERN CATAWBA...NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN...NORTH CENTRAL
    CLEVELAND AND SOUTHEASTERN BURKE COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM EDT...
    At 344 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a thunderstorm with intense
    lightning and torrential rainfall 14 miles southeast of Morganton, or
    6 miles northeast of Casar, moving east at 20 mph.
    Locations to be impacted include...
    Hickory, Lincolnton, Newton, Longview, Maiden, Icard, Hildebran,
    Belwood, Casar and Hickory Regional Airport.
    Wind gusts up to 40 mph, pea size hail and torrential rainfall rates
    up to 3 inches per hour will be possible in these areas.