EF1 tornado in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Tornado May 12, 2025 · Edgecombe County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

2.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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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

An EF-1 tornado touched down in the Southern Terrace area of Princeville, NC, during the afternoon hours on Monday May 12, 2025, and traveled north into a farm field in Tarboro. The tornado damaged a farm outbuilding along with several irrigation pivots, snapping several large trees along the way. The tornado then continued north along Wooten Street before dissipating near Elm Street.

The wider storm

A trough over the lower Mississippi valley region brought waves of showers and embedded storms across central North Carolina. One storm cell became tornadic over Edgecombe County in the late afternoon hours, producing EF1 tornado damage.

Began near Tarboro Arpt (35.8839, -77.5025).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254606. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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