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This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 28, 2016 shows Tropical Depression Two moving toward the Carolinas.(Photo: NOAA/Weather Underground via AP)
Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning for the South Carolina coast Saturday and told residents gearing up for the long Memorial Day weekend to expect strong winds, rain and storm surge along the shores into North Carolina by early Sunday.
The National<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Weather Service says<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Atlantic Ocean<span style="color: Red;">*</span>formation<span style="color: Red;">*</span>known as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tropical Depression Two<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is heading toward the coast at 14 mph and could turn into Tropical Storm Bonnie<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with winds of 39 mph before making landfall near Charleston.
The system, which is likely to be slow moving after going ashore,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is expected to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>bring<span style="color: Red;">*</span>heavy rain<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inland<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and along the Mid-Atlantic coast into New England on Memorial Day.
Homes along Hawea Street in the Tahitian Village neighborhood in Bastrop, Texas are surrounded by floodwaters, May 27, 2016, after heavy overnight rain.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Mary Huber, Basrop Advertisre/AP)
Central Texas, meanwhile, was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>still coping with the fallout from torrential thunderstorms and braced for another possible round of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>flash floods. One person drowned<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Friday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and another is missing is Washington County, located between Austin and Houston.
Lisa Block, an emergency services<span style="color: Red;">*</span>spokeswoman in Travis County, which includes Austin, said officials there were still searching for two people missing from a vehicle on a flooded roadway.
The forecasts through the holiday weekend called for scattered or isolated thunderstorms in Central and Southeast Texas. But officials say they will be monitoring local rivers and waterways, which could rise out of their banks in the coming days due to the heavy rains.
“It’s not going to take very much rain to get us in those flood stages again,” Washington County Judge John Brieden said Friday.
The weather service said there is the possibility of more thunderstorms Saturday and into the evening southeast of Austin.
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