North Carolina officials are urging residents statewide to prepare for severe weather after the National Weather Service issued a rare Level 4 Moderate Risk for parts of the state.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Forecast features a brutally cold Saturday night with lows in the upper teens and some single digit wind chill values. Dry skies will continue through the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Dry slotting slowed down the initial development of snow over parts of southeast NC but all indications are robust snow should begin in the coming hours. Temperatures will ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A blustery southwesterly wind whisks milder temperatures into your First Alert Forecast with Wednesday night’s lows — not that low — holding in the 50s. Another round of much ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Forecast through Wednesday evening features temperatures in the 40s to around 50 amid periods of rain. Rain will amount to half an inch to an inch in most ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Forecast opens with increasing clouds and cool conditions this evening after a sunny Saturday with the high reaching the 60 degree mark in Wilmington. Don’t ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Forecast features increasing clouds with overnight lows in the 50s on this Tuesday night. Mild weather continues into midweek with highs in the lower and ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Slackening winds and lows in the 30s could play host to patchy clouds, fog and frost Monday night. Your First Alert Forecast for Tuesday features some partly sunny 60s and, ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Expect a dry and wintry Monday night as temperatures plummet amid fair skies and, breezy at times, northwesterlies. “Feels like” values should stay out of the NWS’ Cold ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Below-normal temperatures will continue for the rest of the week, but a reinforcing shot of cold air will drive temperatures even lower this weekend. WECT was live with team ...

The National Weather Service plans to conduct a statewide tornado drill this week.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Novant Health is monitoring winter weather conditions across the Carolinas and adjusting operations to maintain patient care access, a Novant Health spokesperson said Friday.