Tornado, Bladen
- When
- May 11, 6:40 PM EST
- Where
- Bladen County, 3 mi SW of Bladenboro
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -78.830
Tornado in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
Brief touchdown sighted by Sheriff, and report also relayed by radio station. 50 inch hail, downed power lines.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS ILM wrote it up.
Brief touchdown sighted by Sheriff, and report also relayed by radio station. Thunderstorm dropped 0.50 inch hail, downed power lines.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 11, 1996
- Hail in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 11, 1996
- Flood in Ohio, May 11 to 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 11, 1996
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1996Warnings in North Carolina, May 1996
Sources
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: 5553498.