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EF0 tornado in Jones County, North Carolina

Tornado April 22, 2023 · Jones County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

The tornado touched down along a farm field on the west side of Henderson Road just to the northwest of Trenton. Several 1.5 foot or large hardwood trees were uprooted along the edge of the farm field. There were also several hardwood trees of much smaller diameter that were snapped about 15 feet up their trunks. The tornado then uprooted a large 2 foot diameter hardwood tree in the front of a resident on the east side of Henderson Road before lifting.

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 Trenton (35.0934, -77.3693).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Duplin County EF1 Jones County EF0 Onslow County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1093840. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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