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EF0 tornado in New Hanover County, North Carolina

Tornado July 6, 2025 · New Hanover County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$10K
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

The tornado formed near the King's Grant subdivision in Wilmington near Jamey Ct, then moved toward the northwest near West Gate Road. There was some minor shingle damage to a home, but mostly large limbs were down along with a couple of snapped/uprooted trees. The tornado crossed North Kerr Road near a truck rental business, then moved across northeast portions of the Wilmington International Airport before causing additional tree damage along Cornelius Moor Ave and Acorn Branch Road. The tornado lifted in the woods north of Acorn Branch Road.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Chantal developed along a frontal boundary off the Georgia coast before moving north making landfall at Litchfield Beach, SC at 4 AM EDT.

Began near (ilm)wilmington Arpt (34.2667, -77.8811).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1287165. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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