{"id":190979,"date":"2026-03-14T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:09:09","slug":"nws-confirms-ef-0-tornado-in-jacksonville-during-thursday-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190979\/","title":{"rendered":"NWS confirms EF-0 tornado in Jacksonville during Thursday storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has confirmed several tornadoes touched down during severe storms that moved through eastern North Carolina Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary storm surveys released by the National Weather Service office in Newport\/Morehead City, five tornadoes have been confirmed so far.<\/p>\n<p>An EF-0 tornado touched down in Jacksonville around 2:16 p.m. near New River Station in Onslow County. The tornado had estimated peak winds of 85 miles per hour, with a path length of about 792 feet and a width of approximately 20 yards. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/storm-damage-causes-structural-collapse-at-american-legion-building-in-jacksonville?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Survey teams found the most notable damage from that storm was the collapse of a metal building in the Jacksonville area.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service also confirmed four EF-1 tornadoes associated with the same storm system.<\/p>\n<p>Those tornadoes were reported in:<\/p>\n<p>Maysville in Jones County Fairfield Harbour in Craven CountyWhortonsville in Pamlico CountyFlorence in Pamlico County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/sounded-like-a-train-residents-recount-storm-that-ripped-through-florence-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a preliminary damage survey, the Florence tornado had estimated peak winds of 105 miles per hour. The tornado began around 2:56 p.m. about three miles west-northwest of Florence and ended around 3:06 p.m. in Florence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/pamlico-county-officials-respond-to-suspected-tornado-nws-survey-planned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Officials reported one injury associated with the Florence tornado. No fatalities were reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details including the tornado\u2019s path length and maximum width are still being determined, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s storms produced strong winds and scattered damage reports across the region as severe thunderstorms moved through eastern North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said the information from both tornado surveys is preliminary and subject to change as additional assessments are completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has confirmed several tornadoes touched down during severe storms that moved through eastern North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-190979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}