Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 2000

Name: Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 2000
Start: 2000-04-15T12:17
End: 2000-04-15T12:20
Location: North Carolina

April 15, 2000 · NWS MHX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: $700,000
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.

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Craven

When: April 15, 12:17 PM EST to 12:20 PM EST
Where: Craven County, Bridgeton
Rating: F1
Path length: 0.8 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $700,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.133, -77.017

An F1 tornado touched down in the Neuse River just southwest of Bridgeton and moved northeast across the town. The tornado caused substantial roof damage to several homes and buisnesses near and along Highway 17. Two Buisnesses were destroyed. One woman in a car sustained minor injuries when her car was blown off the road. Seven mobile homes were destroyed as well as a couple of warehouses at ENCEE Chemicals.

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

Every storm in North Carolina in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for North Carolina, 2000 Warnings in North Carolina, April 2000

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: 5139809.