EF0 tornado in McDowell County, North Carolina

EM reported a short tornado track along Highway 221 in the Ashford area. Most of the damage consisted of uprooted trees and large limbs blown down. However, some minor structural damage was observed to a couple of buildings while some metal skirting was also torn away from the base of a mobile home. Some small outbuildings also sustained damage.

A large area of moderate to heavy rain showers, along with embedded clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms moved slowly across western North Carolina throughout the morning and into the afternoon of the 19th ahead of a slow-moving cold front. Some of the storms produced a couple of isolated, weak tornadoes and locally damaging winds. However, the larger impact was from flash flooding resulting from a swath of 4 to 7 inches of rain that fell across portions of the mountains.