Tropical storm chantal made landfall along the south carolina coast early sunday morning, and officials are warning of flash flooding and rough surf at beaches as the system continues to push inland. Chantal is expected to continue to weaken as it moves inland, likely becoming a tropical depression later today and dissipating by monday The storm is forecast to produce scattered showers, and some areas will see heavy rain and gusty winds from thunderstorms throughout the day. As expected, the 11 a.m Advisory has updated to show that tropical storm chantal has weakened into a tropical depression Max sustained winds have decreased to 35 mph, with higher.
Over the last few days the area of disturbed weather off the east coast coalesced into tropical storm chantal, made landfall on the south carolina coast, and is slowly weakening and moving north It is now a tropical depression with further weakening likely. Chantal originated from a decaying frontal boundary over florida It then moved offshore into the atlantic ocean and rapidly organized into a tropical depression on july 4 The next day, the system became better organized and was upgraded to tropical. At 500 am edt (0900 utc), the center of tropical depression chantal was located near latitude 36.8 north, longitude 78.1 west
Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph (45 km/h) with higher gusts Little change in strength is forecast. Miami — tropical storm chantal was downgraded to a depression sunday but raised concerns of possible flash flooding as it makes its way into central and eastern north carolina.
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