NWS Wilmington NCSV.W 0088September 5, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and 5 more, NC and SC
The National Weather Service office in Wilmington issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and 5 more in North Carolina, South Carolina, which was in force until 6:45 p.m. local time on September 5. It was the 88th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Wilmington 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).
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The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Wilmington NC
- Area
- Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and 5 more
- State
- North Carolina
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 5:44 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- Expires
- 6:45 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KILM SV.W 0088
- 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
SVRILM The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Pender County in southeastern North Carolina... Southeastern Robeson County in southeastern North Carolina... Bladen County in southeastern North Carolina... Northern Brunswick County in southeastern North Carolina... Columbus County in southeastern North Carolina... Southern Dillon County in northeastern South Carolina... Horry County in northeastern South Carolina... Marion County in northeastern South Carolina... * Until 645 PM EDT. * At 543 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Lagoon to near Blue Brick, moving southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines. * Locations impacted include... Conway, Marion, Whiteville, Mullins, Elizabethtown, Horry, Rowan, Tabor City, Loris, Chadbourn, Bladenboro, Bethel, Lake Waccamaw, Latta, Fair Bluff, Lake View, Northwest, Sandyfield, Hickory Grove, and Sellers.
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 or wind damage, including trees or large limbs downed, by calling the National Weather Service office in Wilmington at 1 800 697 3901. 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