EF0 Tornado — Pender, North Carolina

2024-08-07 · near Penderlea, Pender, North Carolina

0.1 mi

Path length

40 yds

Path width

Event narrative

A weak EF-0 tornado touched down in far northern Pender County before crossing into Sampson County along Willard Road. Multiple tree limbs and skinny hardwood trunks were found snapped as it crossed into a field where corn stalks were laid out in a wavy convergent path.

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 1207067. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.