EF1 tornado in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Tornado May 13, 2025 · Edgecombe County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

120 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 120 yards (0.07 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 formed on the south side of Pinetops. It then traveled northward through a baseball field, snapping several nearby trees and destroying the porch of a nearby house. The tornado continued northward across a field, resulting in additional structural and tree damage. The tornado skipped erratically to the northwest, eventually causing damage to trees and a house along Faith Baptist Church Rd, before dissipating in a field nearby.

The wider storm

A mid-level trough over the Tennessee valley region produced two main waves of showers and storms across eastern sections of central North Carolina. The first wave came through in the early morning hours, which produced two tornadoes in Edgecombe County. A second wave of storms developed in the afternoon and evening, producing isolated wind damage across the region.

Began near Pinetops (35.7886, -77.6423).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Edgecombe County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254638. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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