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. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

SVRMHX The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Jones County in eastern North Carolina... Onslow County in eastern North Carolina... Southeastern Duplin County in eastern North Carolina... * Until 845 PM EDT. * At 757 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Albert J Ellis Airport, or 12 miles west of Half Moon, moving east at 30 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... Jacksonville, New River Station, Pumpkin Center, Piney Green, Half Moon, Camp Lejeune Center, Swansboro, Hubert, Richlands, Beulaville, Maysville, Catherine Lake, Kellum, Cypress Creek, Midway Park, Comfort, Chinquapin, Belgrade, Potters Hill, and Petersburg.