EF1 tornado in Durham County, North Carolina

Tornado September 27, 2024 · Durham County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$30K

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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down northeast of the town of Hampton, near Camp Butner Rd and Range Rd. A mixture of soft and hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado moved northeast and damaged additional trees near a residential area north of the intersection of Range Rd and Isham Chambers Rd. It also damaged some roof covering of a large barn and uprooted a large softwood tree. The tornado lifted just north of Bahama Rd and Red Mountain Rd.

The wider storm

Hurricane Helene weakened to a strong tropical storm on the morning of 27 September across northeast Georgia. Helene continued to track to the west and northwest into the Tennessee Valley. Widespread rainfall totals of 2-4 inches of rain fell over central North Carolina, along with wind gusts of 25-45 mph. Additionally, four tornadoes occurred, with the strongest an EF3, touching down over Rocky Mount in Nash County.

Began near Mangum Store (36.2201, -78.8319).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Nash County EF1 Sampson County EF1 Vance County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1210449. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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