I hate to bring this up, but some of the newest weather modeling coming from the ECMWF (European model) and the GFS (American model) show the storm taking a western track once it gets into the North/South Carolina border which would take it more toward Tennessee than Virginia once it get inland. Both weather models have more detailed runs to come in after midnight, so we should know a lot more in the morning. Usually storms like this go up the eastern seaboard once they get into land, but Hurricane Florence may take a different path because of a very strong High pressure system which should be parked over the Great Lakes come Friday. I don't want to get into the weeds of weather geekdom here, but brace yourselves for the possibility of a more western track than originally forecasted. Stay tuned!
Seems that,as a storm gets closer to land,there's more uncertainty about its track,timing etc.
This morning they're saying that the storm is slowing down and that it may even stall for a while before coming ashore.
That has made them push back its landfall to early Friday morning.
They're saying this storm will hang around the Carolina/Virginia area for a few days,not hours.
They're also all saying that they do expect it to move West after landfall heading towards Tenn. not Va.
Looking at the most recent models it looks like the storm wouldn't really affect Tenn. till Sun./Mon. but that all depends on the track/speed of the storm.