‘Catastrophic’ Rain Expected for Georgia, Carolinas as Debby Moves Out of Florida

TAMPA, Fla.—Tropical Storm Debby crawled toward the Florida–Georgia line on the evening of Aug. 5 less than 12 hours after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane. Radar and satellite images revealed its outer bands remained stretched across the southeastern United States, delivering debilitating rain and winds from Cape Coral to North Carolina. It still boasted maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and a ground speed of just 6 mph. Her inching pace has weather and government officials in three states prepared for a multi-day rainfall event of potentially catastrophic proportions. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that across portions of southeast Georgia, the coastal plain of South Carolina, and southeast North Carolina, 10 to 20 inches of rainfall were expected through Saturday....