Raleigh Flashes Back to Fran

UPDATE: The following rainfall reports from North Carolina have been released by the National Weather Service:

Raleigh (NWS Office): 7.60"
Apex, NC: 6.66"
Raleigh (Airport): 5.61"

UPDATE: Action Steve Penstone (PREMIUM | PRO) totally scooped me linking to the NC D.O.T. traffic camera system which has delivered the following pictures at the intersection of Glenwood & Edwards Mills (near the Crabtree Valley Mall):

NOTE: These pictures are those most recently uploaded. They will change in the future. Here is a permalink to the Raleigh Alberto flooding photos.

ORIGINAL POST: At noon today, the city of Raleigh, North Carolina is flooding andI'm flashing back to Hurricane Fran in '96 (see my chase report with photos/video and post-storm photos).

HAUNTINGLY FAMILIAR: A PHOTO I TOOK
OF FLOODING NEAR CRABTREE VALLEY
MALL DURING HURRICANE FRAN IN 1996

WRAL-TV in Raleigh is reporting that the Crabtree Valley Mall is now closed due to flooding and more than 3,200 people have lost power. Flooding has closed various roads throughout the city and the State Fairgrounds is also flooded. One-hour precip totals have neared 3 inches per hour in some spots (see movie below).

Worse, severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings are now being issued for the area.

Below is a shot from 12:45 p.m. via AccuWeather.com RadarPlus, showing storm-total Doppler-estimated precipitation out of the Raleigh radar. Flood warnings (blue) and watches (light blue) and severe thunderstorm warnings (yellow) are shown on top of the radar image.

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The good news is... the heavy rain shield has passed Greensboro and is moving eastward at 1 p.m.

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