LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A line of severe thunderstorms and most likely some tornadoes have swept across North Carolina, leaving one woman dead after a tree crashed into her bedroom.
The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office said the 61-year-old woman lived in Lexington, North Carolina. It is about half an hour south of Winston-Salem and northeast of Charlotte along Interstate 85.
The sheriff’s office said a man who also was in the bedroom suffered minor injuries. The identifies of the man and the woman have not been released.
Jonathan Blaes, the meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service in Raleigh, said surveys are underway to confirm that tornadoes had struck parts of the state. Those areas include Alamance County in the central part of the state and parts of the coast near Jacksonville.
No other deaths were immediately reported statewide. A woman in Charlotte was injured after a large tree fell on her residence.