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EF1 tornado in Burlington County, New Jersey

Tornado April 1, 2023 · Burlington County, New Jersey

EF1
Rating
6.0 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 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 tornado formed along a line of thunderstorms and made initial touchdown in Cinnaminson, NJ, near the intersection of Riverton Road and Woodside Lane where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. It then traveled east-southeast towards Cinnaminson High School and Eleanor Rush Intermediate School, where the damage

path expanded to around 0.3 miles wide or about 520 yards, spreading across much of the surrounding neighborhood where numerous trees were reported down. The strongest wind damage occurred near the intersection of Wynwood Drive and Locust Lane where a majority of the roof covering was peeled off a single-family home. The tornado continued east-southeast across US HWY 130 into Lakeview Memorial Park where a large swath of softwood trees were either uprooted or snapped at the trunk. Continuing east-southeast, the damage path continued through the neighborhoods surrounding New Albany Road and Endicott Ave, moving towards the communities near Ravenswood Park, uprooting and snapping multiple trees. The tornado then crossed Haines Mill Road in Delran where it grew to its greatest width of approximately

0.3 miles or 600 yards. After persisting east-southeast and crossing Bridgeboro Road, it likely pushed through Esther Yanai Preserve where the damage path was lost due to lack of road networks in the preserve. Minor tree and limb damage was observed again near John Pryor Field in Moorestown. More widespread damage was then found near the intersection of Hartford Road and Worthington Drive with multiple softwood trees uprooted or snapped. The wide swath of tree damage continued over to Dominion

Drive with numerous trees uprooted or snapped and left leaning on utility lines along Borton Landing Road. It is likely at this point the tornado began to occlude and wrap up. Additional snapped branches and minor damage to veneers and siding was found along a narrow strip of Country Club Drive in the Laurel Creek Country Club neighborhood. The tornado then caused minor damage to some roof shingles on a home on Augusta Drive before snapping the top of one final utility pole on Centerton Road.

The wider storm

A strong cold front approached the region, with a line of strong showers and thunderstorms developing out ahead of the front. Storms produced damaging winds, multiple tornadoes, and small to medium-sized hail in New Jersey.

Began near Palmyra (40.0065, -75.0006).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1091022. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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