For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. This is a dangerous storm. Prepare immediately for large destructive hail capable of producing significant damage. People outside should move to a shelter, inside a strong building and away from windows. 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.

At 714 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Elizabethtown, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...Two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines. Locations impacted include... Elizabethtown, Rowan, Carvers, Abbottsburg, Lisbon, Lagoon, Elkton, Emerson, Council, Kelly, Clarkton, White Lake, East Arcadia, and Bladen County Hospital.