CLEVELAND COUNTY - The National Weather Service said a small tornado along with straight-line winds rocked a small mobile home community just outside Kings Mountain in Cleveland County early Monday.

William Sanders said he could see the dark cloud headed toward his area about 9:30 a.m. He grabbed his dog and jumped into the bathtub of his home on Yarborough Road.

"It was like a roller-coaster ride," he said, adding that his whole mobile home rocked.

Two doors down, Crystal Funderburk said the windows in her home shattered, pictures fell off the walls and the TV fell to the floor. She said she grabbed her two young children and laid flat on the ground.

Sylvia Self said the winds lifted her single-wide trailer off the ground. She said when she cried out for help, the trailer came back down again.

"One of my two sheds just exploded," she said. Her minivan was lifted off the ground.

Another home in the same community had part of its roof ripped off. It landed 150 yards away.

Six mobile homes were damaged, three were knocked off their foundations, and 12 people were displaced from their homes.

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