Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 PM EDT for southwestern North Carolina.

SVRMRX The National Weather Service in Morristown has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Eastern Cherokee County in southwestern North Carolina... Clay County in southwestern North Carolina... * Until 745 AM EDT. * At 701 AM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 14 miles southwest of Town Of Santeetlah to 11 miles west of Andrews to near Murphy to 8 miles northwest of Blairsville, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Andrews, Hayesville, Nantahala Lake, Shooting Creek, Tusquitee, Topton, Marble, and Brasstown.