An EF1 tornado touched down in Pender County Sunday night, officials with the National Weather Service confirmed Monday. A second EF1 tornado hit Perquimans County, in coastal northeast North Carolina, just after 3 a.m. Monday.
On the other side of the state, two boys died Sunday morning when a tree fell on a home south of Asheville, officials said.
The Pender County tornado had 95 mph winds and cut a path more than 3 miles long, uprooting trees and damaging homes and other structures, according to NWS officials…