EF1 Tornado — Bladen, North Carolina

2024-09-27 · near Ammon, Bladen, North Carolina

Event narrative

From the Public Information Statement (PNS) from the Raleigh, North Carolina Weather Service Office:

The tornado touched down just SW of the intersection of Highway

210 and Turney Berry Lane, where it snapped numerous 12 diameter

pine trees and uprooted large bluberry bushes. It moved NNE, and

crossed Peter Cromartie Road, where minor roof damage was noted,

along with several snapped trees. The tornado continued NNE to the

Bladen- Sampson county line, exiting the county near the Helltown

Road bridge across the South River. Numerous large trees were

snapped near the county line, along with downed power lines.

Numerous trees snapped along Helltown Rd around the county border

area with power lines downed and an outbuilding damaged by fallen

tree. Along and near Elwell Road, large, healthy, and leafy oak

tree was uprooted with saturated soils. Numerous large limbs

snapped out of oak tree with a few other limbs snapped out of

nearby trees.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Helene made landfall along the Gulf Coast of FL in the Big Bend and weakened to a tropical storm before reaching central GA. The storm then turned northwest across the southern Appalachians before weakening to a tropical depression over eastern TN. Tropical Storm Warnings were issued for all of northeast SC but not in NC. Limited impacts occurred across southeast NC including some tropical storm force wind gusts and some a weak tornado.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (34.7618, -78.4417)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1220985. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.