Thunderstorm Wind — Orange, North Carolina
2020-06-28 · near Chapel Hill Wllms Ar, Orange, North Carolina
1
Direct deaths
$50K
Property damage
50 EG
Magnitude
Event narrative
One tree fell on a mobile home in the 1200 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard, resulting in a fatality.
Wider weather episode
Multiple mid to upper level disturbances moving through the region triggered scattered showers and thunderstorms. One cluster of storms moved across the northern Piedmont counties, knocking down a few trees in Burlington, including one tree down onto a home. The same cluster of storms continued to move east across Orange County where an isolated tree crashed through a mobile home and caused a fatality.
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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 900616. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.