If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

At 344 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking gusty showers and isolated thunderstorms along a line extending from near Phoenix to near Holden Beach. Movement was northeast at 45 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts around 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Wilmington, Leland, Oak Island, Carolina Beach, Burgaw, Wrightsville Beach, Kure Beach, Surf City, Holden Beach, Caswell Beach, Bald Head Island, Snows Cut, Rich Inlet, South Masonboro Island, Ocean Crest Pier, Figure Eight Island, Yaupon Beach, North Masonboro Island, Hampstead, and Boiling Spring Lakes. This includes the following highways... Interstate 40 between mile markers 388 and 416. Interstate 140 between mile markers 15 and 20. US Route 17 in Brunswick County between mile markers 20 and 44.