Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Several people were sent to the hospital and significant damage was reported after a powerful tornado tore a 16.5-mile-long path through central North Carolina Wednesday afternoon. According to ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
The City of Rock Mount said 15 people were injured during a tornado on Friday. The National Weather Service office in Raleigh estimated winds were 140 mph which is EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
A low-end EF3 wedge tornado, which prompted the issuance of a tornado emergency, touched down southwest of Allendale and moved through rural areas towards town, quickly reaching peak intensity and obliterating a couple of anchored mobile homes, scattering their debris across fields and into trees. The metal frame of one of the mobile homes was ...
A PDS tornado watch issued on December 14, 2022. In weather forecasting in the United States, "particularly dangerous situation" (PDS) is the wording used by the National Weather Service to convey special urgency in watch or warning messages for unusually extreme and life-threatening severe weather. It is used in the format "This is a ...
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 ...
Late December 2012 North American storm complex; North Carolina tornado outbreak of April 2014; Tornado outbreak of February 23–24, 2016; Tornado outbreak of October 20–22, 2019; 2020 Easter tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of February 5–7, 2020; Tornado outbreak of March 21–23, 2022; Tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022