GREENVILLE, N.C. - Clean-up continues Thursday after an isolated but potent thunderstorm, featuring damaging straight-line winds, tore through Duplin and Lenoir Counties Wednesday evening.
The storm downed scattered trees and power lines general Highway 11 corridor between 7:10 and 8:10pm. Wind tore the roof off a business at D. W. Williams Rd. and Highway 11 in Kenansville around 7:20 and damaged the roof of the Sandy Bottom Baptist Church in Lenoir County around 8:10. None of the church’s 150 occupants were injured.
On Thursday morning, National Weather Service officials, in conjunction with local EMS officials, confirmed that straight-line winds, and not a tornado, were indeed the cause of the damage.
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