Full Notification

SVRILM The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern New Hanover County in southeastern North Carolina... Southeastern Pender County in southeastern North Carolina...

* Until 200 PM EDT.

* At 108 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Castle Hayne, or 11 miles south of Burgaw, moving north at 10 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines.

* Locations impacted include... Rocky Point, Murrayville, Castle Hayne, Cape Fear Community College North Campus, Bayshore, Porters Neck, Ashton, Ogden, Wrightsboro, and St. Helena.

* AFFECTED AREAS: NEW HANOVER, NC ... PENDER, NC

Instructions:

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 Wilmington at 1-800-697-3901. 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. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.