WRAL News Tornado Coverage March 1984
Division:
WRAL-TV
People:
Adele Arakawa, Charlie Gaddy, John Hudson
Program Types:
Newscasts, Weather
Type:
Video
WRAL News coverage of tornadoes that ripped through eastern North Carolina. John Hudson and Adele Arakawa anchor the coverage. Charlie Gaddy reports from the field. The statistics of this outbreak are staggering and perhaps unprecedented in the history of North or South Carolina. The final count shows 24 individual tornadoes touched down: 11 in North Carolina, 11 in South Carolina, and 2 in Georgia. The human impact included 57 fatalities, (42 in North Carolina, 15 in South Carolina, none in Georgia) and 1248 injuries. (799 in North Carolina, 448 in South Carolina, and 1 in Georgia).