EF1 tornado in Stanly County, North Carolina

Tornado March 31, 2022 · Stanly County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

7.2 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$600K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Anson County → Stanly County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

The tornado tracked from Anson County across the Rocky River into Stanly County near Plank Road. The tornado continue to track northeastward and across mostly rural southern Stanly county before lifting after 3 miles. The tornado caused mostly tree damage and blew a roof of a residents around on Hardy Road near Mount Zion Church Road, shortly before it lifted.

The wider storm

A pre-frontal band of showers and isolated thunderstorms moved into a marginally unstable but highly sheared environment leading to a couple of tornadoes, namely in Anson into Stanly counties and just west of the Raleigh Durham International Airport from Research Triangle Park into southeast Durham County.

Began near Cottonville (35.1558, -80.1900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Durham County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1017432. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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