EF1 tornado in Sampson County, North Carolina

Tornado January 3, 2022 · Sampson County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An EF-1 tornado briefly touched down around 2 miles south-southwest of Newton Grove.

It was the ground for less than one minute before dissipating. The tornado resulted in substantial roof and structural damage to two hog barns.

The wider storm

A strong upper level low moved from the Midwest into the Mid Atlantic from January 2nd into the 3rd. Strong storms to isolated severe storms preceded the arrival of the low along with a broad area of 2 to 4 inches of rain along United States Highway 1 corridor, producing flooding around the Triangle region of central North Carolina. Strong sustained gradient winds were felt over much of the area, with numerous gusts of 35 to 50 miles per hour. As the low moved through the area, rain mixed with and changed to snow with several inches of snow reported across portions of the northwest and far northern Piedmont.

Began near Monks Xrds (35.2145, -78.3624).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Harnett County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1004222. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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