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The National Weather Service issued its first tornado warnings — for northern Chatham County and central Orange County — at 10:38 a.m. Friday, spawning a frenzy of weather updates.
However, a new tornado watch — which means there are favorable conditions for one to form — will be issued for most of central North Carolina until 8 p.m., said Tom Green, a meteorologist at NWS.
A strong band of storms rolled through the Triangle and central/eastern NC, bringing wind and rain. A day of tornado warnings across the Triangle, with 2 twisters reported on the ground in NC Skip ...
The 1988 Raleigh tornado was the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia on November 28, 1988, between 1:00 AM and 5:45 AM. The Raleigh tornado produced over $77 million in damage, along with four fatalities (two in the city of Raleigh, and two in Nash County ) and 154 injuries.
What to do in a tornado. North Carolina gets an average of 31 tornadoes per year. “Tornado season” is March through May, but they can happen any time. The National Weather Service offers these ...
This was the first EF3 tornado to strike the Piedmont Triad region since May 8, 2008, when an EF3 tornado struck Clemmons, just outside Winston-Salem. The tornado caused $9.95 million in property damage, destroying 40 homes and businesses and damaging another 609 structures. [ 23 ]
Over a dozen people were injured by the tornado in Nash and Edgecombe counties. NC tornado updates: What to know about the destructive weather in Nash and Edgecombe Skip to main content
Tornado events of this magnitude are rare in North Carolina, with outbreaks on February 19, 1884 and March 28, 1984 the only historical precedents for outbreaks of this size, scale, and level of overall widespread damage. A March 31, 1973, outbreak produced over 25 tornadoes in the state, but all but one of those storms produced only F0 or F1 ...