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EF2 tornado in Davie County, North Carolina

Tornado May 8, 2008 · Davie County, North Carolina

EF2

Rating

6.4 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.7M

Damage as recorded

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

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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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

NWS survey found a tornado track that began just north of the Advance community and tracked for one mile before moving into extreme southwest Forsyth County. A frame house was heavily damaged by the tornado.

The wider storm

Supercell thunderstorms developed over the North Carolina foothills and Piedmont during the evening hours. Large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes were produced.

Began near Advance (35.9639, -80.4613).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 102653. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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