CURRIE, N.C. (WNCN) — Two tornadoes — with one causing several injuries — were confirmed to have touched down in eastern North Carolina as severe weather moved across the state Sunday and early Monday morning.
The first one hit Pender County Sunday night. According to the National Weather Service in Wilmington, the EF-1 tornado touched down at 7:25 p.m. just west of Herrings Chapel Road about four miles east of Currie. It then tracked north-northeast for about three minutes and ended about five miles west-southwest of St. Helena just south of Burgaw, the NWS said. Its winds reached an estimated 95 miles per hour.
The twister “caused tree damage and damage to multiple dog kennels”, NWS Wilmington said. Roof damage on some houses near Fennell Town Road was also observed, according to weather officials. No injuries were reported.
A few hours later, another tornado touched down further up the coast, this one causing injuries. At 3:02 a.m. Monday, an EF-1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 miles per hour touched down “in a field just southwest of Longview Estates near Woodville Road” outside of Woodville, according to the National Weather Service office in Wakefield, Va. The area sits along the border of Pasquotank and Perquimans counties.
As the tornado moved on a northeast path, NWS Wakefield said it destroyed three mobile homes in Longview Estates and damaged several others. Eight people at the mobile home community were injured, according to weather officials.
The twister then tracked across the Little River and more roads, “downing numerous trees and damaging some sheds along the path”, the weather office said. It lifted near the intersection of Glade Road and Simpson Ditch Road at approximately 3:06 a.m.
Much of central and eastern North Carolina, including the Triangle, was under a tornado watch Sunday night and the first hour of Monday morning. No twisters were reported in the central part of the state.
