Updated at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2021. An apparent tornado ripped through North Carolina's Brunswick County, killing at least three people and injuring 10
EF3 tornado with 160 mph winds levels homes in Brunswick County; 3 dead, 10 injured Associated Press
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An EF3 tornado killed three people and injured 10 others when it struck late Monday night in Brunswick County, near Ocean Isle Beach in southeastern North Carolina. The twister left residents trapped or missing and dozens of homes damaged, officials said.
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“Last night’s tornado in Brunswick County has been rated as a high-end EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita damage scale with winds estimated at 160 mph,” the National Weather Service in Wilmington tweeted.
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Then, a tornado struck late Monday, killing three people, injuring at least 10 and causing damage to more than four dozen homes, most of them in the affluent Ocean Ridge Plantation neighborhood near U.S. 17 about four miles north of Ocean Isle Beach proper.
The damage was relatively isolated but also extensive. I ve been to a number of different scenes, said Brunswick County Commissioners Chairman Randy Thompson, who served as the county s emergency management director for 10 years before he retired. With the new, stable construction like we have in Brunswick County, I have not seen the magnitude of the damage I ve seen like that from Monday night s storm.
It was late Monday night when the power went out at Jesse Clemmons' home in coastal North Carolina. He went outside to start up the generator and heard a loud roar approaching from the woods.