EF0 tornado in Harnett County, North Carolina

Tornado January 3, 2022 · Harnett County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$100K

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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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-0 tornado briefly touched down two miles southwest of Coats, North Carolina.

It was the ground for about two minutes before dissipating. The tornado resulted in roof, window, and siding damage to several homes. In addition, about a dozen trees were either snapped or uprooted, at least two fences were blown over, and at least two

outbuildings or sheds were destroyed or rolled over.

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 Buies Creek Stwrt Ar (35.3957, -78.6977).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Sampson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1004605. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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