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EF0 tornado in Johnston County, North Carolina

Tornado May 4, 2025 · Johnston County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 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

A brief but strong EF-0 tornado occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday May 4, 2025 as a line of storms moved through central North Carolina. A car port was picked up and displaced approximately 100 yards downstream, while a portion of a roof was torn off an outbuilding and displaced 100 yards to the northwest. Several weakened trees on the property were snapped and one was uprooted. The tornado was on the ground for less than a minute before lifting.

The wider storm

An eastward moving cold front led to a line of showers and embedded storms tracking east in the early morning hours of the 4th of May. An isolated storm became tornadic in Johnston County. Additional isolated storms developed along the stalled front during the evening hours, producing some quarter inch hail in Cumberland County.

Began near Blackman Xrds (35.4075, -78.4653).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254596. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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