Month: April 2020

By Kasey Cunningham and Gilbert Baez, WRAL reporters Snow Camp, N.C. — An Alamance County man spend Monday afternoon picking through debris that had been his home until an early morning tornado demolished it. Javhel Glover, 20, said he was awakened Monday by an alarm on his phone indicating a tornado warning, but he admits that he turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. As t he winds outside began to howl louder,…

On the morning of Monday, April 13, 2020 a tornado made landfall in the town of Lena, South Carolina. … Click to Continue »

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Severe weather moving through central North Carolina on Monday morning brought Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and left at least one person dead.. All tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings for the ABC11 viewing area have ended. A Wind Advisory remains in effect until 4 p.m. Emergency managers reported a swath of tree damage in southeastern Alamance County near Sutphin and Saxapahaw. Some of the trees fell on homes and other…

JACKSON, Miss. — Severe weather has swept across the South, killing at least 20 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes. Eleven people were killed in Mississippi, and six more died in northwest Georgia. Three other bodies were pulled from damaged homes in Arkansas, South Carolina…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Severe weather moving through central North Carolina on Monday morning brought Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. All tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings for the ABC11 viewing area have ended. A Wind Advisory remains in effect until 4 p.m. LIVE RADAR: Storms moving to North Carolina coast Just before 6:50 a.m., the First Alert Weather Team got confirmation of a tornado on the ground spotted 7 miles south of Mebane headed…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Power outages reached into the hundreds of thousands across the Carolinas on Monday morning after a life-threatening batch of storms invaded the region. Duke Energy’s power outage map totaled more than 200,000 outages in both North and South Carolina as of noon. Heavy rains, high wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. About 18,000 in Wake County don’t have power. ABC11 saw possible tornado damage in Alamance County where radar did confirm that…

JACKSON, Miss. — Strong storms pounded the Deep South on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in south Mississippi, six people in Georgia, one person in South Carolina and damaging up to 300 homes and other buildings in northern Louisiana. Storms continued to batter the South overnight, with much of the region under flash flood, tornado and thunderstorm warnings and watches. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Greg Michel said one person killed was in Walthall…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Severe weather is moving through central North Carolina on Monday morning. CURRENT WEATHER ADVISORIES Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Edgecombe and Wilson counties until 9:45 a.m. LIVE RADAR: Storms moving to North Carolina coast Just before 6:50 a.m., the First Alert Weather Team got confirmation of a tornado on the ground spotted 7 miles south of Mebane headed toward Hillsborough. Don “Big Weather” Schwenneker and Brittany Bell identified this as a radar-confirmed tornado…