Chris Michaels

1 day ago | wral.com | Chris Michaels |Lora Lavigne |Charles Bradley |Jessica Patrick

Strong winds damaged multiple homes and toppled trees early Tuesday in Edgecombe County, where radar confirmed a tornado around 3:45 a.m.Photos show significant damage to a home on Gay Street and downed trees on powerlines on School Street. No injuries or deaths have been reported after the storm. Edgecombe County was under a tornado warning between 3:25 a.m. to 4 a.m. Tuesday, the third tornado warning there in less than 12 hours.

1 day ago | wral.com | Chris Michaels |Lora Lavigne |Charles Bradley |Jessica Patrick

First look at possible tornado damage in PinetopsA possible tornado damage damaged a home and brought down trees early Tuesday in Edgecombe County, where radar confirmed a tornado around 3:45 a.m.The photos show significant damage to a home on Gay Street and downed trees on powerlines on School Street. The viewer who sent the photo of the damaged home said it is her friend's house, adding that everyone who lives there is accounted for and okay.

1 week ago | wral.com | Chris Michaels

Ask the Meteorologist: What is our biggest threat during hurricane season? We are now less than a month away from the official start to hurricane season. Hurricane season in the Atlantic runs from June 1 to November 30. The WRAL Severe Weather Team will air its 2025 Tropical Outlook Tuesday, May 20, at 6 p.m.In our part of the state, we have a lot of people moving from different areas - areas that maybe aren't used to tropical weather (ie. California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, etc.).

1 week ago | wral.com | Chris Michaels

Monday afternoon, Tommy Augustine, a trained storm spotter and chaser, caught photos and video of a tornado in Jamesville, North Carolina. We shared one of his posts to Facebook shortly after he called it in to the local National Weather Service office. You could tell from Augustine's videos and others that this hit a very rural area, which turned out to be good news. After storms cause damage, be it straight-line or tornadic, the National Weather Service will send a team to investigate the damage.

1 week ago | wral.com | Chris Michaels

Ask the Meteorologist: Why did so many storms have hail Monday? Several storms Monday contained hail, ranging in size from peas to ping pong balls. The WRAL web team compiled several photos of the hail that you sent through ReportIt here. You've got hailstones in pretty much every thunderstorm that forms. Air rises quickly into the storm, punching into a colder part of the atmosphere thousands of feet above the surface. Storms can, at times, grow to be 50,000 to 60,000 feet tall.