EF0 tornado in Pender County, North Carolina

Tornado August 7, 2024 · Pender County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

4.7 mi

Whole path

40 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pender County → Sampson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 weak EF-0 tornado touched down in far northern Pender County before crossing into Sampson County along Willard Road. Multiple tree limbs and skinny hardwood trunks were found snapped as it crossed into a field where corn stalks were laid out in a wavy convergent path.

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 Penderlea (34.6830, -78.1475).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Brunswick County EF0 Pender County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1207067. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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