Headline:
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued May 5 at 1:18PM EDT until May 5 at 2:00PM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NC
Event:
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Urgency:
Immediate
Effective:
May 5, 2025 - 10:18am
Expires:
May 5, 2025 - 11:00am
Description:
SVRMHX
The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Lenoir County in eastern North Carolina...
Northeastern Duplin County in eastern North Carolina...
* Until 200 PM EDT.
* At 118 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Kornegay, or
15 miles east of Warsaw, moving north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Sandy Bottom, La Grange, Albertson, Kornegay, Pink Hill, Sarecta,
Deep Run, and Kinston.
Instruction:
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Please send your reports of hail and/or wind damage, including trees
or large limbs downed, by calling the National Weather Service office
in Newport at 1-800-889-6889.
Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is
one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Area Description:
Duplin, NC; Lenoir, NC
Forcast Office:
NWS Newport/Morehead City NC