A line of severe storms moved through central North Carolina on Wednesday, resulting in  damage and destroyed homes, as several tornadoes were spotted in Granville, Vance and Cumberland Counties.

Several homes in a Granville County community were destroyed. Pam McWilliams said she and her husband lost their home to the tornado.  She was terrified when her five dogs, all Pomeranians, went missing during the storm. They've all since been accounted for, including one stuck underneath the crushed house.

The tornado destroyed seven homes homes on Huntsboro Road near the Henderson-Oxford airport.  McWilliams said her husband, Rick, has a hearing problem and, as fate would have it, he left the house minutes before the tornado struck, and it probably saved his life.

The McWilliams' lost their home to the tornado, as did several of their neighbors.

The National Weather Service in Raleigh said preliminary information indicated that a tornado that hit Granville and Vance Counties was an EF 2 level tornado, which means it had winds clocking to 125 miles an hour.

Witnesses said they spotted tornadoes in Vance, Cumberland and Granville Counties — the rest of the region experienced high winds and heavy rain.

Most areas did not sustain serious damage, and there were no reports of injuries or deaths in North Carolina from the storm system.

Oxford dairy farmer Sears Day says his land was ravaged, as was a cattle farm up the street, ripped apart.

Weather investigators were on the ground Thursday, assessing the damage.