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EF0 tornado in Nash County, North Carolina

Tornado May 5, 2009 · Nash County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

7.2 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Johnston County → Nash County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 tracked northeast through open field and woodland area where it produced significant tree damage. The tornado quickly lifted up after crossing Smith Road and Beaver Dam Road.

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 Middlesex (35.7415, -78.1851).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wilson County EF0 Johnston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 159764. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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