Weather Alerts For Castle Hayne, NC

An Earth Networks Dangerous Thunderstorm Alert is in effect until 5/11/2026 1:19 PM EDT Event Start: 5/11/2026 12:34 PM EDT Event End: 5/11/2026 1:19 PM EDT Earth Networks Dangerous Thunderstorm Alert Earth Networks Headquarters Germantown, MD * Until 1:19 PM EDT * At 12:34 PM EDT...The Earth Networks Total Lightning Network is indicating a thunderstorm with a significant rate of lightning occurring in your area and moving in your direction. This storm has an increased potential to produce severe weather such as very frequent lightning, heavy rain, hail and/or damaging winds and should be considered dangerous. (For more information on this Earth Networks product visit www.earthnetworks.com) * Storm is located near Latitude: 34.287, Longitude: -78.077 * Repeating, this storm contains frequent lightning and has an increased potential to produce severe weather and should be considered dangerous. Take appropriate measures to ensure safety to life and property immediately. This alert is being issued in an advisory capacity by Earth Networks Headquarters due to the detection of frequent lightning by The Earth Networks Total Lightning Network. It is not associated in any way with the country’s official meteorological services nor to any official alert linked to this storm. Active advisories or warnings issued by the official meteorological services should be followed in precedence to this alert. Stay tuned to www.earthnetworks.com, other Earth Networks applications or local media outlets for the latest severe weather information.

# SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... New Hanover County in southeastern North Carolina... Southeastern Pender County in southeastern North Carolina... Northeastern Brunswick County in southeastern North Carolina... - Until 130 PM EDT. - At 1233 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Northwest to near Winnabow, moving east at 30 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- 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 Wilmington, Leland, Wrightsville Beach, Surf City, South Masonboro Island, Figure Eight Island, Hampstead, Northwest, Topsail Beach, Bishop, Hightsville, Cape Fear Community College North Campus, Wilmington International Airport, Myrtle Grove, Masonboro, Murrayville, Castle Hayne, University Of North Carolina At Wilmington, Phoenix, and Scotts Hill. ISSUED AT Monday, May 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Wilmington NC HEADER BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Severe Thunderstorm Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- 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.

Closest strike: 1.73 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 FROM THE COASTAL CAROLINAS INTO THE FLORIDA PENINSULA...AND ALONG THE CENTRAL GULF COAST SUMMARY Isolated severe storms with locally damaging wind gusts and hail are possible Monday afternoon from the coastal Carolinas into the Florida Peninsula, and along the central Gulf Coast. Carolinas A large upper trough is present today over the eastern states, with a weak cold front sagging southward across the Carolinas. Ample low-level moisture is present to the south of the front from central SC into southeast NC, with dewpoints in the mid 60s. Pockets of daytime heating will destabilize this region, with the potential for isolated thunderstorm development by early afternoon. Low-level winds are veered and relatively weak, limiting frontal convergence and shear. A few strong storms may occur with locally gusty winds and hail. But the overall threat appears marginal. Eastern FL Warm/moist conditions are expected today over the FL Peninsula with temperatures over the interior warming into the 90s. Deep westerly flow will focus convergence along the east-coast sea-breeze, leading to scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Sufficient deep-layer vertical shear may result in isolated strong-severe storms producing gusty/damaging winds and hail. Coastal LA/MS/AL A convectively-aided shortwave trough over east TX will continue to track eastward across the central Gulf Coast region today. The combination of daytime heating and dewpoints in the mid-upper 60s will yield moderate CAPE values, leading to relatively widespread afternoon thunderstorms from southeast LA into southern MS/AL. Low-level winds are weak and lapse rates are rather weak. Nevertheless, cooler temperatures aloft and degree of instability will support a risk of occasionally intense cells capable of damaging winds and hail.