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EF1 tornado in Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Tornado March 17, 2025 · Pasquotank County, North Carolina

EF1
Rating
3.4 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
8
Injuries
$195K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that a tornado touched down just southwest of Longview Estates near Woodville Road in Perquimans County around 302 AM EDT. The tornado quickly moved northeast, crossing the Little River and continuing in Pasquotank County. The tornado crossed Halls Creek Road near Glade Road. The tornado tracked near Glade Road while downing numerous trees and damaging some sheds along the path. The tornado lifted around 306 AM EDT near the intersection of Glade Road and Simpson Ditch Road.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front on the night of March 16 into the early morning hours of March 17 across northeast North Carolina.

Began near Elizabeth City Arpt (36.2290, -76.3070).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247979. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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