EF1 tornado in Durham County, North Carolina

Tornado March 31, 2022 · Durham County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A brief and fast moving EF-1 tornado touched down and began uprooting and snapping numerous trees near Shilo Glenn Drive near the Wake and Durham County line in southern Durham County. In addition, an HVAC unit was dislodged and flipped over on the roof of a warehouse building before quickly dissipating.

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 Clegg (35.8672, -78.8372).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Anson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1017433. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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