Weather Alerts For Bridgeton, NC

Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 340 PM EDT Sun Apr 5 2026 Jones NC-Inland Onslow NC-Northern Craven NC-Pamlico NC-Duplin NC- Southern Craven NC- 340 PM EDT Sun Apr 5 2026 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT JONES...CENTRAL CRAVEN...NORTHERN ONSLOW...SOUTHERN BEAUFORT...SOUTHEASTERN DUPLIN AND WEST CENTRAL PAMLICO COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM EDT... At 339 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Vanceboro to Cypress Creek. Movement was east at 25 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Jacksonville, New Bern, New River Station, Pumpkin Center, Piney Green, Half Moon, Camp Lejeune Center, James City, Trent Woods, River Bend, Richlands, Maysville, Askins, Catherine Lake, Kellum, Cypress Creek, Midway Park, Comfort, Jasper, and Tuscarora. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. &&

Closest strike: 1.82 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE EASTERN CAROLINAS AND COASTAL MID-ATLANTIC SUMMARY Thunderstorms with isolated damaging winds may occur this afternoon across the eastern Carolinas and parts of the Mid-Atlantic region. Carolinas/Mid-Atlantic Within the base of a broad upper trough centered over eastern Canada and the Great Lakes, multiple subtle mid-level perturbations over the Midwest will develop east-northeastward across the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas today. Ongoing showers will accompany an east/southeastward-moving surface cold front, but some cloud breaks will allow for filtered pre-frontal heating, particularly across the coastal plain over the eastern Carolinas and far southeast VA. Up to 100-300 J/kg of MLCAPE should develop across the coastal Mid-Atlantic, with 500-1000 J/kg MLCAPE possible over the eastern Carolinas where greater heating should occur. A broken line of low-topped thunderstorms will develop along/ahead of the cold front this afternoon as it moves east-southeastward. Modestly curved low-level hodographs and 25-35 kt of deep-layer shear should support clusters/bands of convection, with isolated damaging wind gusts possible where low-level lapse rates can become steepened. However, poor mid-level lapse rates and generally weak instability are expected to limit updraft strength and the overall severe threat. Upper Midwest While low-level moisture will remain quite meager, cold temperatures aloft and very weak MUCAPE may support a few lightning flashes late this afternoon and early evening across parts of southeast MN into northeast IA and southwest WI near a southeastward-moving front. Gusty winds may occur with this convection in the presence of a well-mixed boundary layer and strengthening northwesterly winds aloft. But with minimal instability forecast, the overall severe threat is expected to remain low.

Pollen Index: 10.1 Pollen Level: high Predominant Pollen: Oak, Poplar/Aspen/Cottonwood and Maple. Pollen concentrations for Monday will be falling but will remain in the high range. This forecast of lower pollen concentration is based on falling temperatures, lack of strong winds and expected precipitation in the morning and evening which tends to wash pollen out of the air.