EF0 tornado in Alamance County, North Carolina

Tornado September 26, 2024 · Alamance County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$22K

Damage as recorded

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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

An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in the northeast portion of Alamance County. Damage consisted of several downed trees and shingles that were blown off of at least two homes.

The wider storm

Hurricane Helene slowly made landfall over northwest Florida in the evening. Even though its location was far from central North Carolina, rainbands ahead of the tropical system developed across the region and produced swaths of heavy rainfall. An isolated strong storm produced tornado damage across Alamance County.

Began near Just Xrds (36.2266, -79.2808).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1210442. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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