EF0 tornado in Perquimans County, North Carolina

Tornado September 23, 2023 · Perquimans County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 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

A brief EF0 tornado was captured on video and shared via the media. The tornado touched down in a field causing no known damage.

The wider storm

Isolated severe thunderstorm associated with bands of showers and thunderstorms well north of Tropical Storm Ophelia produced a weak brief tornado in the northern part of Perquimans county in northeast North Carolina.

Began near Hickory Xrds (36.3300, -76.5300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1141112. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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