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.

SVRMHX The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Onslow County in eastern North Carolina... * Until 645 PM EDT. * At 613 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Camp Lejeune Center, moving southeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Jacksonville, Camp Lejeune Center, Swansboro, Hubert, Midway Park, Hammocks Beach, Onslow Beach, and Hammocks Beach State Park.