EF0 tornado in Pender County, North Carolina

Tornado August 7, 2024 · Pender County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

35 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 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 weak tornado associated with Tropical Storm Debby's rain bands snapped a tree at a property off of Old Maple Hill Road North and downed numerous large limbs in a concentrated path westward through the intersection of NC-50 with Old Maple Hill Road North. From eyewitness accounts, the tornado continued across a large

farm field and lifted soon after crossing NC-53.

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 Shelter Neck (34.6617, -77.6903).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pender County EF0 Brunswick County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1207066. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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