NWS Newport/Morehead City NCSV.W 0104September 4, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and 1 more, NC
The National Weather Service office in Newport/Morehead City issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and 1 more in North Carolina, which was in force until 6:00 p.m. local time on September 4. It was the 104th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Newport/Morehead City issued in 2026. North Carolina had 124 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 32 in an average September of 2008-2025 (North Carolina's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 46 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Newport/Morehead City NC
- Area
- Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and 1 more
- State
- North Carolina
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 5:14 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2026
- Expires
- 6:00 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KMHX SV.W 0104
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina since 2008Every warning type in North Carolina
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The notice as issued
SVRMHX The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Washington County in eastern North Carolina... Northeastern Pitt County in eastern North Carolina... Martin County in eastern North Carolina... Northwestern Beaufort County in eastern North Carolina... * Until 600 PM EDT. * At 513 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 11 miles northwest of Westover to near Windsor to 8 miles northwest of Williamston to 7 miles east of Tarboro, moving southeast 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... Williamston, Plymouth, Bethel, Stokes, Roper, Robersonville, Hinson, Westover, Mackeys, Gold Point, Jamesville, Hamilton, Oak City, Smithwick, Parmele, Everetts, Dardens, Hassell, and Beargrass.
What the agency told people to do
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 these storms. 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.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina since 2008734 a year
- Every warning type in North Carolina
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels