NWS Newport/Morehead City NCSV.W 0106September 5, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Greene and Pitt, NC
The National Weather Service office in Newport/Morehead City issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Greene and Pitt in North Carolina, which was in force until 4:30 p.m. local time on September 5. It was the 106th 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).
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The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Newport/Morehead City NC
- Area
- Greene and Pitt
- State
- North Carolina
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 3:47 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- Expires
- 4:30 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KMHX SV.W 0106
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
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The notice as issued
SVRMHX The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Greene County in eastern North Carolina... Pitt County in eastern North Carolina... * Until 430 PM EDT. * At 347 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles northwest of Farmville, 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... Greenville, Winterville, Farmville, Bethel, Stokes, Snow Hill, Bell Arthur, House, Bruce, Maury, Ormondsville, Roundtree, Lizzie, East Carolina University, Pitt Greenville Airport, Dowdy Ficklen Stadium, Fountain, Hookerton, Castoria, and Walstonburg.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Prepare immediately for large hail and damaging winds. People outside should move immediately to shelter inside a strong building. Stay away from windows. 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. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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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
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