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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
355 PM EDT Fri May 24 2024

The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  West central Jones County in eastern North Carolina...
  Southwestern Lenoir County in eastern North Carolina...
  Northwestern Onslow County in eastern North Carolina...
  Central Duplin County in eastern North Carolina...

* Until 445 PM EDT.

* At 355 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Kenansville,
  or 11 miles east of Warsaw, moving east at 25 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Jacksonville, Warsaw, Kornegay, Richlands, Beulaville, Catherine
  Lake, Comfort, Kenansville, Potters Hill, Petersburg, Pleasant
  Hill, Albert J Ellis Airport, Richlands South, Sarecta, Pink Hill,
  Lyman, and Hargetts Crossroads.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 Newport at 1-800-889-6889.

Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3492 7811 3513 7802 3507 7744 3475 7752
TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 284DEG 20KT 3498 7789

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

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