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EF0 tornado in Johnston County, North Carolina

Tornado November 15, 2008 · Johnston County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
3.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 initially touched down near Daughtry Road south of U.S. Highway 70 damaging several pine trees and causing minor roof damage. The tornado tracked northeast crossing Crocker Road where a car was smashed when a large carport collapsed. A travel trailer was overturned and a nearby home suffered shingle and siding damage. The tornado crossed Creechs Mill Road, where a horse farm had one small barn destroyed. A 30 foot horse trailer was also blown over and two large bay doors were blown in on the stables. The tornado proceeded northeast across Stevens Chapel Road and Country Store Road, damaging numerous trees and outbuildings along the way. Finally, at one dwelling, the tornado broke a garage window and blew out a garage door.

The wider storm

Two mini-supercells tracked northeast along a warm front during the early morning hours of the 15th. The two supercells spawned several tornadoes in Samspon, Johnston, and Wilson counties, two of which resulted in two fatalities.

Began near Brogden (35.4622, -78.2707).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 135140. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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