EF0 tornado in Brunswick County, North Carolina

Tornado September 15, 2024 · Brunswick County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 waterspout moved onshore north of East Beach Road on the east

side of Bald Head Island. This event was captured on video by a

homeowner on the north end of East Beach Road. After moving onshore

the tornado moved toward the west across marshes and into a wooded area

near Cape Creek Road where it quickly dissipated. No damage was

observed in the wooded area where it dissipated.

The wider storm

Potential Tropical Cyclone #8 located off the SC coast was classified by the National Hurricane Center on September 15 and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for the entire coast of southeast NC and northeast SC at that time. The system slowly moved toward the coast but never became organized enough to be classified as a tropical (or subtropical) cyclone, eventually moving inland around the NC/SC border on September 16. The system brought historic rainfall amounts and extensive flash flooding to portions of southeast North Carolina, focused most in Carolina Beach where 29 adults, 2 children, 5 dogs, and 3 cats required water rescue from the local Fire Departments. In addition, tropical storm force gusts, minor to moderate coastal flooding, and 1 tornado occurred.

Began near Ft Caswell (33.8565, -77.9595).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1211965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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