Tornado, Lenoir
- When
- April 15, 9:15 PM EST to 9:20 PM EST
- Where
- Lenoir County, Pink Hill
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.050, -77.750
Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 1999
A tornado briefly touched down near Pink Hill. Debris was believed to cause the two injuries that were reported.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
- 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 MHX wrote it up.
A tornado briefly touched down near Pink Hill. Debris was believed to cause the two injuries that were reported. This was associated with the F2 tornado that moved across Duplin and Jones counties.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 15, 1999
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- Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 1999
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 15, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, April 15, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, April 15, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, April 15, 1999
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 1999
- Tornado in Alabama, April 15, 1999
- Hail in North Carolina, April 15, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 15, 1999
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1999Warnings in North Carolina, April 1999
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5687296.