Three tornadoes struck Edgecombe County over a 10-hour period as storms swept through central North Carolina from Monday evening through early Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service said.

All three were classified as EF1 tornadoes, the weather service said Tuesday evening. There were no injuries reported.

Savanna Brooks said she, her husband and two children slept through a tornado that tore through their Pinetops home on Tuesday morning.

“The first time I woke up was between 3 and 4," Brooks said. "It just sounded like a freight train going through our bedroom. I was like, whoa, that was scary. My husband was like, ‘What?’ And I was like, ‘The storm’. And then I fell right back asleep."

The tornado ripped the tin roof off and tore through a nearby field toward Drake Farms.

A building used for social gatherings adjacent to the farm was heavily damaged. Chairs, a cooking grill, poolside furniture and insulation were strewn about the property.

Hundreds of yards from the home, a fence built to protect a family-owned grave plot was bent and ripped from the ground.

Brooks described her amazement at learning the storm blew off their tin roof.

"How did we sleep through this? How did this happen?" Brooks said.

The first tornado touched down at 5:06 p.m. Monday in Princeville and moved north to a farm in Tarboro, damaging an outbuilding and snapping trees with 100-110 mph winds.  

The second began at 3:27 a.m. Tuesday inside Edgecombe County north of the town of Fountain, North Carolina, and moved north, damaging a mobile home and knocking down trees. It also had winds of 100-110 mph. 

The third formed at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday on the south side of Pinetops. That's the tornado that tore through Brooks's home. It had wind speeds of 75-110 mph, the weather service said.