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.

SVRILM The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Florence County in northeastern South Carolina... Southern Darlington County in northeastern South Carolina... * Until 645 PM EDT. * At 554 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles west of Bishopville to Swift Creek, moving southeast at 35 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. * Severe thunderstorms will be near... Darlington, Darlington Raceway, and Oats around 600 PM EDT. Lamar and Florence Darlington Technical College Main Campus around 605 PM EDT. Florence and Timmonsville around 610 PM EDT. Cartersville around 620 PM EDT. Evergreen, Effingham, Sardis, and Claussen around 630 PM EDT. Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include Carolinas Hospital System, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Carolinas Hospital System - Cedar Tower, and Health South Rehabilitation Hospital.