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Severe thunderstorm warnings popped up around central North Carolina Friday afternoon as a powerful set of storms blew through with hail wind gusts of up to 60 mph.

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Hello everyone and Happy Friday, Mike Maze here with your forecast update. The upper-level low triggered showers and storms throughout and the day and some will linger into the early evening hours. Once we get toward midnight all the showers should have faded away and we will be left with partly to mostly cloudy skies along with cooler weather. Lows in the mid-upper 40s.

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