EF0 tornado in Robeson County, North Carolina

Tornado May 14, 2024 · Robeson 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

A short-lived tornado started along Old Baker Road south of US-

74 Alt and tracked generally northward with converging uprooted

and snapped trees and minor roofing damage observed along its

path. The tornado crossed US-74 Alt and ripped a street sign out

of its base before ending shortly thereafter.

The wider storm

Some low-topped supercells occurred in association with an upper level disturbance in an environment with minimal instability but pretty strong wind shear.

Began near Red Banks (34.6871, -79.2624).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1173577. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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