EF0 tornado in Johnston County, North Carolina

Tornado May 5, 2009 · Johnston County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$28K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down in the area of 2550 NC Highway 39. The tornado damaged the roofs of four buildings and blew a boat into a car causing moderate damage.

The wider storm

Two tornadic supercells developed along a stalled warm front that extended across souther piedmont and coastal plain of North Carolina.

The cells produced 4 tornadoes in Johnston, Nash and Wilson counties.

Began near Micro (35.5926, -78.2648).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wilson County EF1 Johnston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 159713. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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