EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, North Carolina

Tornado May 3, 2025 · Lincoln County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

1.3 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

NWS storm survey found the path of a very brief and weak tornado that touched down just west of Killian Farm Rd, where a tree was snapped along with multiple large limbs. The tornado continued southeast, crossing Caswell Road where additional limbs were snapped. The tornado dissipated in a wooded area long Highway 73 just west of the Catawba River.

The wider storm

A couple of waves of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across the North Carolina Piedmont during the afternoon and the evening. A few of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts.

Began near Lowesville (35.4320, -80.9860).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1266910. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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