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EF0 tornado in Bladen County, North Carolina

Tornado May 14, 2024 · Bladen County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
6.0 mi
Whole path
40 yd
Path width
$4K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Columbus County → Bladen 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

Additional damage was discovered 5 miles south of Clarkton, leading

to a longer path length. The tornado touched down near Coastal

Farm south of Hwy 701 and broke several small limbs out of pine

trees. It continued northeast causing minor damage as it tracked a

few hundred yards south of Hwy 701. The damage included several large

limbs down, as well as a portion of metal roofing blown off a small

structure on Elkins Ln. The tornado entered swamp land after crossing

Red Hill Rd, and was captured on video after emerging near Baldwin

Elkins Rd. Minor damage to a few trees was noted. The tornado

continued moving east-northeast and exited the forest near Highway 211.

Minor damage to a few trees was noted where the tornado exited the

forest, on the south side of Highway 211.

The wider storm

Some low-topped supercells occurred in association with an upper level disturbance in an environment with minimal instability but pretty strong wind shear.

Began near Clarkton (34.4590, -78.6560).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1211845. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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