NC: Winds Toss Planes and Cars, Damage Hangar at Hickory Regional Airport
HICKORY— The Hickory Regional Airport received the brunt of a storm that ripped through the eastern part of Burke County with what some said were 100 mph winds.
Around 4:45 p.m., several reports were made of tornado touchdowns across multiple different counties in the foothills.
It is undetermined if a tornado made a landing at the airport, but the powerful winds left a large mark and destroyed multiple hangars and damaged up to eight different privately owned airplanes.