Wednesday afternoon, Gaston County officials said a person was killed when a tree fell on a car. The New Hope Fire Department was able to get another person out of that car, though, and take them to the hospital.

"These are going to be moving in, but this won't be the only wave of storms," Panovich said. "There's another cluster developing back in Missouri that's going to be here overnight into early Thursday morning."

Panovich said there could be an isolated storm or two after 7 p.m. Wednesday, but it should be mostly quiet until midnight into Thursday. The second wave is expected to hit the Charlotte metro area around 3 a.m. Thursday.

Panovich said any Thursday morning storms could impact the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club. The good news is things should clear out by the middle of the day, and we're looking at much nicer weather through the weekend.

"It looks like those storms will have used up so much energy in the atmosphere there may not be time for the atmosphere to reload or get re-intensified because at the same time, there's a cold front sweeping in," Panovich said. "So it's a race to see if things get unstable again before the front or is there not enough time and the front gets in and clears everything out."

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