If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
At 310 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Longs, or 8 miles north of North Myrtle Beach Airport, moving east at
15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Sunset Beach, Little River, Iredell, Carolina Shores, Calabash,
Grissettown, Longwood, Longs, Hammond, Pireway, Ash, Brooksville, and
Sea Coast Medical Center.