If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for northeastern South Carolina.

At 546 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Lamar, or 10 miles east of Bishopville, moving east at 25 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Florence, Timmonsville, Lamar, Quinby, Mars Bluff, Effingham, Cartersville, Florence Darlington Technical College Main Campus, Francis Marion University, Oats, Claussen, Evergreen, Carolinas Hospital System, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Carolinas Hospital System - Cedar Tower, and Health South Rehabilitation Hospital. This includes the following highways... Interstate 20 between mile markers 126 and 141. Interstate 95 in South Carolina near mile marker 146, and between mile markers 151 and 173.