Hurricane Safety and Preparedness Hurricane Florence Will Slow Down, Hammer Carolinas and Appalachia for Days with Catastrophic Flooding, Destructive Winds By weather.com meteorologists September 13 2018 01:45 AM EDT weather.com 01:09 Flooding Threat from the Remnants of Beta What was Tropical Storm Beta caused flooding along the Texas coast. Now, what's left of the storm will bring heavy rain to the Southeast. At a Glance Florence is a dangerous Category 2 hurricane.

Florence is expected to crawl near or along the coast of the Carolinas through Friday.

This will produce catastrophic flash flooding and major river flooding.

Life-threatening storm surge will occur near landfall and for some time after.

Hurricane and storm surge warnings have been issued.

Tropical-storm-force winds may arrive as soon as Thursday.

Florence's remnant may linger in parts of the East into early next week. Hurricane Florence will slow down, performing an agonizing crawl through the Carolinas and Southeast into early next week, producing catastrophic inland rainfall flooding, life-threatening storm surge and destructive winds. For the latest forecast on Florence, check our out our latest complete forecast here .

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