Tropical storm warning posted for parts of the Carolinas for disturbance offshore

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical storm warning has been issued for a stretch of the Southeast seacoast from a disturbance forecasters say is likely to become a tropical storm in coming hours. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Sunday night that the storm system has been moving erratically off the Carolinas and is likely to become a tropical storm during the night or later Monday. A tropical storm warning has been issued from Edisto Beach, South Carolina, up to Ocrakoke Inlet near North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The system is expected to dump its heaviest rains around parts of South Carolina and the coastal plain of North Carolina as it moves onshore early in the week.