EF0 Tornado — Brunswick, North Carolina

2024-08-06 · near Regan, Brunswick, North Carolina

Event narrative

A small tornado associated with Tropical Storm Debby's rain bands started near Ash Little River Road NW, where it caused a concentrated area of damage at a large property. Several Bradford Pear trees were uprooted or snapped along the property's

driveway. Large limbs were also snapped in a stand of trees northwest of the driveway and minor damage to fencing and the removal of one panel of flashing near the home's roof was also found. The tornado likely continued northwestward into a dense

forest based on the persistence of a tornado debris signature detected by a weather radar located approximately 10 miles east of the tornado.

Wider weather episode

After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and Georgetown. The storm then moved northwest to near the SC/NC border and weakened to a tropical depression on August 8 before quickly becoming a non-tropical low pressure system. The storm's main impact across southeastern NC was flash/river flooding from heavy rainfall but tropical storm force wind gusts, minor coastal flooding, and 3 weak tornadoes also occurred.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1207065. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.