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EF0 tornado in Bertie County, North Carolina

Tornado July 3, 2023 · Bertie County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
60 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 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 in a field about one quarter mile west of the southern end of Hyman's Ferry Road where it damaged the roof of an outbuilding. The tornado intensified as it tracked to the east and completely destroyed an open building. In addition, debris from that building damaged a van and trailer, snapped trees, and partially tore off the roof of another open building in that same area. Additional debris was thrown into a field to the east of the southern end of Hyman's Ferry Road. The tornado snapped several trees after tracking east across a field before lifting.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms well in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds, lightning damage and one tornado across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near Woodard (35.8900, -76.8400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1122374. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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