Tropical Storm Chantal has formed off the southeastern coast of the United States and is expected to make landfall along the South Carolina coast on Sunday morning, according to a series of July 5 advisories from the National Hurricane Center.
As of 11 a.m. ET on July 5, the storm’s center was located about 135 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, and roughly 220 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, according to a bulletin from the hurricane center. The agency has issued tropical storm warnings for portions of the Carolinas as the system steadily approaches the shoreline.
