28 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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28 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Fallen trees caused damage to several buildings in Laurel Hills.
Winds knocked a water tower over and smashed a mobile home and damaged another. Trees and power lines were blown down.
Wind damaged 48 structures and seven autos. Most of the damage was in the town of Pinebluff and the Pinehurst area. Damage also reported in River Bend. Trees fell on houses, mobile homes were blown on their sides, and a chicken house was destroyed.
Large tree fell on a mobile home. Other reports of trees and power lines down on Calloway Road, near the Hoke/Moore county line. Damage was also report in Antiock.
Winds 60-70 mph caused power outages in Elizabethtown
Several barns and shelters were destroyed and a few homes damaged at Old Stage Road and the NC 42 intersection. Four mobile homes were either damaged or destroyed. Fifteen to twenty homes had trees on or against them. Four persons were taken to the hospital and treated for minor bruises and scratches.
Touched down Elizabethtown 5NE, tracked NE on ground three minutes.
Winds caused damage to 52 structures, mainly due to trees falling on homes.
Widespread limbs snapped off trees,, ,
A family was attempting to leave their mobile home when a downburst blew their home into the highway on State Road 1003, one-hafl mile north of Highway 42. The man of the house was covered with debris from the mobile home. He died later at Duke Hospital. Wife and daughter were also injured. Over 40 structures were damaged, with mobile homes being blown into each other and trees.
A tornado damaged many homes, farm and outbuildings in Seven Springs. Widespread damage to trees and outbuildings due to downburst winds occurred over the rest of the county. Overall, 62 structures were affected.
Ten structures were destroyed, 30 damaged, and one turkey house destroyed.
Fierce winds knocked down over 100 trees in the town of Conetoe, many falling on homes. The roofs of three chicken houses were also destroyed, killing about 400 chickens, while another 40,000 had to be moved to new locations.
Trees and power lines were down near Trenton on 1002 road and between Pollocksville and Trenton on Highway 58.
Trees and power lines down.
Several houses sustained heavy damage and power lines were down.
Trees and power lines were down throughout the county. Roof blown off a business in Williamston. Widespread structural damage in Oak City and Robersonville.
Trees down in Walstonberg. Roof blown off a barn three miles south of Walstonberg. Ambulance garage destroyed in Castoria.
Numerous trees down near Greenville. Sixty mph wind reported nearby.
Trees down on homes and cars in Washington. Trees down Route 306 south of Aurora and in Cambells Creek.
Trees and power line damage.
Trees and power lines down in northern part of New Bern. One house blown off its foundation. Nearby anemometer pegged at 90 mph. Many trees and power lines down on Route 17 two to four miles north of New Bern.
Trees down in Arapahoe and Olympia.
Trees down in Back Swamp. Sixty mph winds at Swansboro and south of Jacksonville.
Trees and power lines down near Plymouth and throughout the county.
Wind gust to 50 knots at Cedar Island.
Roofs on trailer homes blown off and power lines down in Columbia. Swath of damage five miles wide.
Several trailers overturned near Lake Mattamuskeet and near Swan Quuarter on Route 264.
Street signs and power lines down near Rodanthe.
Widespread downed trees knocked out power
A tornado touched down near Faison on Route 403 destroying two trailers and ripping the roof off of a house.
A tornado touched down just east of LaGrange on Highway 70 destroying eight trailers and causing eight injuries. One trailer was picked up and thrown through another. Tie-downs were ripped out of the ground, frames twisted and cars overturned.
Several turkey farms were destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds one mile east of Kenansville on Highway 24 and near Magnolia.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Bladen | 1995-01-07 | Direct | |||
| Thunderstorm Wind, Wayne | 1995-01-07 | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 1995Every state in 1995This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1995Warnings in North Carolina, January 1995
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10337961, 10338168, 10338454, 10338761, 10338623, 10337559, 10338624, 10338688, 10337578, 10337738, 10337739, 10337868, 10338227, 10338436, 10338462, 10338463, 10338473, 10338410, 10338474, 10338411, 10338296, 10338437, 10338439, 10338465, 10338408, 10338440, 10338409, 10338431, 10338468, 10338710, 10338432, 10338434, 10338433.