Headline:
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued May 5 at 1:52PM EDT until May 5 at 2:45PM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NC
Event:
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Urgency:
Immediate
Effective:
May 5, 2025 - 10:52am
Expires:
May 5, 2025 - 11:45am
Description:
SVRMHX
The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Greene County in eastern North Carolina...
Lenoir County in eastern North Carolina...
Northern Duplin County in eastern North Carolina...
* Until 245 PM EDT.
* At 152 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Bowdens to Deep Run, moving northeast at 25
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...
Dawson, Beautancus, Warsaw, Snow Hill, Sandy Bottom, La Grange,
Shine, Kornegay, Pink Hill, Deep Run, Bowdens, Graingers, Calypso,
Hookerton, Kinston, Institute, Kinston Regional Jetport, Albertson,
Jason, and Faison.
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 these storms. 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; Greene, NC; Lenoir, NC
Forcast Office:
NWS Newport/Morehead City NC