EF0 tornado in Cleveland County, North Carolina

Tornado May 26, 2022 · Cleveland County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

NWS storm survey found a small short-track tornado touched down just southeast of Lattimore near Towery Rd. A shed was damaged along with a few trees. The tornado Moved north-northeast, lifting just short of Artee Rd.

The wider storm

A broad band of moderate to heavy rain showers with embedded strong to severe thunderstorms moved over western North Carolina throughout the afternoon into the evening. Several strong to severe thunderstorms produced locally damaging wind gusts, brief large hail, and even a couple of tornadoes, including a strong tornado in Iredell County.

Began near Lattimore (35.3080, -81.6450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Iredell County EF0 Cleveland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1030306. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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