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EF0 tornado in Onslow County, North Carolina

Tornado April 22, 2023 · Onslow County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

A tornado touched down northwest of Richlands, in northwest Onslow County. The tornado peeled back metal sheeting on the roof of a garage structure, and moved a trailered boat several feet into the rear of a parked pickup truck. The tornado then crossed A.I. Taylor Road and removed some siding on a residence. The tornado then caused some minor damage to a a metal storage shed along a dirt road off of A.I. Taylor

Road before lifting. The strongest winds were estimated to be around 75 mph.

The wider storm

Several weak brief tornadoes touched down during the evening hours as a cold front and trough of low pressure moved through Eastern NC.

Began near Jarmantown (34.9551, -77.6378).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Duplin CountyEF1 Jones CountyEF0 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1093837. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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