EF0 Tornado — Pender, North Carolina

2024-08-07 · near Shelter Neck, Pender, North Carolina

1.8 mi

Path length

35 yds

Path width

Event narrative

A weak tornado associated with Tropical Storm Debby's rain bands snapped a tree at a property off of Old Maple Hill Road North and downed numerous large limbs in a concentrated path westward through the intersection of NC-50 with Old Maple Hill Road North. From eyewitness accounts, the tornado continued across a large

farm field and lifted soon after crossing NC-53.

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 1207066. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.