Tropical Depression 3 strengthened to Tropical Storm Chantal Saturday morning. Chantal will move northward and come ashore in South Carolina early Sunday morning.

Although forecasters do not expect Chantal to become a hurricane, the storm is likely to dump several inches of heavy rainfall across the Carolinas.

Located about 150 miles south-southeast of the Charleston, South Carolina, Chantal was producing sustained winds of 40 mph and moving north toward the coast leading to a Tropical Storm warning as of 8 a.m., according to the National Hurricane Center.