Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Florence, SC; Marion, SC

Official alert brief

SVRILM The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern Florence County in northeastern South Carolina... Northern Marion County in northeastern South Carolina... * Until 700 PM EDT. * At 610 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Mars Bluff, or near Florence, moving southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect wind damage to trees and power lines. * Locations impacted include... Florence, Marion, Pamplico, Quinby, Mars Bluff, Francis Marion University, Rains, Gresham, Claussen, Evergreen, Hyman, Carolinas Hospital System, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Carolinas Hospital System Cedar Tower, and Health South Rehabilitation Hospital.

Instructions

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.