Weather officials confirm there was a tornado in the storm system
that swept through parts of western North Carolina this week, flinging
mobile homes into valleys, damaging dozens of buildings and injuring
nearly 20 people.
The storm system struck Rutherford and Burke
counties on Wednesday, as a cold front moved through the western
Carolinas. A National Weather Service survey team reported the system
produced a tornado of EF2 strength, with winds of roughly 115 miles an
hour.
"The trailer started shaking and we were gone," said
Samantha Owens of Ellenboro, in Rutherford County. "It just picked and
we just started rolling."
The mobile home where Owens lived with
her mother and four children was thrown off its foundation, she said
Thursday. Her mother was taken to a hospital in Charlotte with a
concussion, but Owens and her children escaped with minor scrapes and
bruises.
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