Harvey’s remnants could douse Rock Hill area
The remnants of Hurricane Harvey could bring a wet and stormy start to the Labor Day weekend in the Rock Hill area, meteorologists say.
Locally heavy rain, along with the threat of severe weather, is in the forecast for the region. The rain is expected to start Thursday morning and continue until late Friday night.
The possibility of bad weather is caused high schools to reschedule football games for Wednesday and Thursday nights and Saturday morning.
After days of meandering across Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, Harvey is finally on the move. It made landfall Wednesday morning in southwest Louisiana as a tropical storm, pushing to the northeast at 9 mph – almost breakneck speed, compared to its sluggish movement earlier this week.
The center of the system is forecast to cross Louisiana and western Tennessee, then turn eastward across Kentucky. A large area of tropical showers and thunderstorms is forecast to develop on the eastern side of Harvey’s remnants, covering the central and western Carolinas.
Andrew Kimball, of the National Weather Service office in Greer, says heavy rain will be the big threat Thursday, as the precipitation moves in. By Friday afternoon and evening, the atmosphere could become unstable enough for thunderstorms to develop.
In addition to a flash flooding threat Friday, Kimball said there will be “an isolated threat for severe thunderstorms, capable of producing strong winds and isolated, small, brief tornadoes.”
Some improvement is expected Saturday, although a 50 percent chance of showers will remain in the forecast. But rain-free weather is predicted for Sunday and Labor Day, with high temperatures climbing back into the middle 80s.
Yet another tropical system is forecast to develop this weekend off the Texas coast, possibly spreading heavy rain into an area already inundated this week by Harvey. Some of that moisture is expected to move into the Rock Hill area by the middle of next week.
This story was originally published August 30, 2017 at 6:14 PM with the headline "Harvey’s remnants could douse Rock Hill area."