F1 tornado in Carteret County, North Carolina

Tornado September 27, 1993 · Carteret County, North Carolina

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Four businesses in West Ridge Shopping Center and two mobile homes in the Wildwood subdivision were destroyed and two outbuildings at a high school damaged. Total damages were estimated at more than $500,000.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10338889. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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