If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

At 1135 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles west of Lillington, moving east at 30 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... Lillington, Fort Liberty, Dunn, Angier, Benson, Godwin, Pope AFB, Spring Lake, Erwin, and Coats.