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CITY, N.C. (AP) - Residents, meteorologists and emergency officials in
eastern North Carolina were surveying the damage Saturday from multiple
tornadoes that damaged more than 200 homes the previous day and sent
more than a dozen ...
Eastern NC tornadoes damage homes, injure a dozen
Updated 2:26 pm, Saturday, April 26, 2014
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A man tries to salvage belongings from a overturned mobile home in Greenville, N.C. on Saturday, April 26, 2014 after a tornado touched down along Black Jack Simpson Road on Friday. Officials said multiple tornadoes damaged more than 200 homes the previous day and sent more than a dozen people to the emergency room. Photo: Aileen Devlin, AP
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MOREHEAD
CITY, N.C. (AP) — Residents, meteorologists and emergency officials in
eastern North Carolina were surveying the damage Saturday from multiple
tornadoes that damaged more than 200 homes the previous day and sent
more than a dozen people to the emergency room.
Meteorologists said Saturday that tornadoes with winds of more than 111 mph touched down in Pitt and Beaufort counties on Friday, and they were continuing to investigate storm damage.
Elsewhere, Texas, Oklahoma and other states in the Plains and Midwest were bracing for severe storms expected to start Saturday and continue overnight. There, the main threat will be large hail and damaging wind gusts.
In North Carolina, Beaufort County Emergency Management Director John Pack said 16 people were taken to the emergency room when the storms passed through around 7:25 p.m. Friday.
Pack said 200 homes were either heavily damaged or destroyed. Pictures on news websites showed residents salvaging items from crushed mobile homes, along with snapped trees and a mangled utility pole in eastern North Carolina.
"You can track the tornado by the damage." Pack said. "It left a lot damage behind in its approximately five to 10 minutes on the ground."
Pack said the storm appeared to be about 300 yards wide and was on the ground for 10 miles. He said the line of damage started in the west-northwest portion of the county and traveled to the northeast.
At one point, Pack said, 8,000 people were without power, but most had been restored by Saturday.
Pack also said two major farming operations in the county sustained damages, but he didn't have further details.
In Halifax County, Antonio Richardson said the roof was blown off his home on Friday afternoon. He said he and a friend took shelter under his mobile home.
"It peeled back my roof, just like you would a banana," Richardson told WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
Meteorologists said Saturday that tornadoes with winds of more than 111 mph touched down in Pitt and Beaufort counties on Friday, and they were continuing to investigate storm damage.
Elsewhere, Texas, Oklahoma and other states in the Plains and Midwest were bracing for severe storms expected to start Saturday and continue overnight. There, the main threat will be large hail and damaging wind gusts.
In North Carolina, Beaufort County Emergency Management Director John Pack said 16 people were taken to the emergency room when the storms passed through around 7:25 p.m. Friday.
Pack said 200 homes were either heavily damaged or destroyed. Pictures on news websites showed residents salvaging items from crushed mobile homes, along with snapped trees and a mangled utility pole in eastern North Carolina.
"You can track the tornado by the damage." Pack said. "It left a lot damage behind in its approximately five to 10 minutes on the ground."
Pack said the storm appeared to be about 300 yards wide and was on the ground for 10 miles. He said the line of damage started in the west-northwest portion of the county and traveled to the northeast.
At one point, Pack said, 8,000 people were without power, but most had been restored by Saturday.
Pack also said two major farming operations in the county sustained damages, but he didn't have further details.
In Halifax County, Antonio Richardson said the roof was blown off his home on Friday afternoon. He said he and a friend took shelter under his mobile home.
"It peeled back my roof, just like you would a banana," Richardson told WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
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