EF0 tornado in Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS storm survey found the path of a EF0 tornado that touched down along north Fork Road where several trees were uprooted. The tornado moved southeast across Allen Mountain and across the Black Mountain golf course where additional trees were uprooted along with large limbs snapped. The most concentrated damage occurred from Laurel Ave to just north of downtown Black Mountain where multiple trees were uprooted along with numerous large limbs snapped. Several homes sustained damage from falling trees. A radio tower at the Black Mountain Fire Department was also toppled. The tornado lifted along East State St.

A couple of waves of strong to severe thunderstorms moved from east Tennessee into western North Carolina...one during the afternoon and evening of the 8th, and another during the early morning of the 9th. Scattered severe storms produced several EF1 tornadoes, large to very large hail, and isolated swaths of damaging winds.