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EF0 tornado in Brunswick County, North Carolina

Tornado August 6, 2024 · Brunswick County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
40 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 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 small tornado associated with Tropical Storm Debby's rain bands started near Ash Little River Road NW, where it caused a concentrated area of damage at a large property. Several Bradford Pear trees were uprooted or snapped along the property's

driveway. Large limbs were also snapped in a stand of trees northwest of the driveway and minor damage to fencing and the removal of one panel of flashing near the home's roof was also found. The tornado likely continued northwestward into a dense

forest based on the persistence of a tornado debris signature detected by a weather radar located approximately 10 miles east of the tornado.

The wider storm

After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and Georgetown. The storm then moved northwest to near the SC/NC border and weakened to a tropical depression on August 8 before quickly becoming a non-tropical low pressure system. The storm's main impact across southeastern NC was flash/river flooding from heavy rainfall but tropical storm force wind gusts, minor coastal flooding, and 3 weak tornadoes also occurred.

Began near Regan (33.9782, -78.5899).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1207065. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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