EF1 tornado in Craven County, North Carolina

Tornado May 16, 2022 · Craven County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 tornado or gustnado touchdown occurred along the 500 block of

Hyman Rd west of New Bern around 8:20 PM. A single family home had

almost 50% of its metal roof torn off and a metal carport was picked up

with debris tossed up to 150 yards to the east. Several large diameter

hard and softwood tree branches where broken with a few softwood tree

trunks snapped in the vicinity. North of the residence, damage to crops

and trees were generally in a southerly direction while at and south of

the residence damage was toward the east suggesting rotation.

This same supercell thunderstorm tracked east-southeast into the town

of New Bern with many areas experiencing tree damage mainly to small

but also to some large diameter branches. Damage indicators suggest

straightline downburst winds outside of the initial weak tornado

touchdown. No additional damage to structures was seen nor reported to

emergency services during or prior to the survey of this thunderstorm.

The wider storm

A long-duration severe thunderstorm event affect Eastern NC during the afternoon, and lingered well into the evening hours. Numerous reports of wind damage occurred, along with a couple tornado reports, and some large hail.

Began near Hymans (35.1700, -77.1800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1029940. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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