Thunderstorms

Tuesday's severe thunderstorms caused damages, outages, car accidents, and road closures. One 78-year-old Durham woman died after a tree fell on her car.

Much of central North Carolina – from north of Fayetteville, to Greensboro, to Rocky Mount – is under a Level 3 Enhanced Risk for severe weather, according to the National Weather Service’s scale.

Scattered storms are once again in the forecast for this afternoon. The pattern of late-day thundershowers each day is not so unusual, according to…