Question: Where did North Carolina’s most severe tornado outbreak to date occur?
Answer: North Carolina’s most severe tornado outbreak in history, which delivered the state’s biggest one-day total of 30 confirmed tornadoes, occurred across central and eastern North Carolina on April 16, 2011. It impacted areas including Raleigh, Sanford, and Fayetteville, and caused at least 24 deaths and more than 300 injuries, with damage totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
