EF1 tornado in Davidson County, North Carolina

Tornado March 28, 2010 · Davidson County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$750K

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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

A EF-1 tornado touched down in a wooded area south of Chestnut Street Extension where it caused extensive tree damage. The tornado proceeded northeast

across across Chestnut Street Extension where it caused minor damage to a single family residence when it ripped away the attached carport. The tornado tracked

then tracked through a wooded area before it hit the Valley Mobile Home Park located

off Sink Lake Road. Approximately 20 mobile homes were completely destroyed or damaged so severe that they can no longer be occupied. One of the destroyed mobile homes and a full size SUV was uplifted and displaced into an adjacent lake.

There were four occupants inside the mobile home but remarkably no one was

seriously injured. The tornado then lifted in a wooded area northeast of the mobile home park.

The wider storm

Convection developed ahead of an amplified upper trough across the Tennessee Valley

while a strong southerly mid and upper level jet provided strong shear across the region. Tornadoes formed and track ahead of a developing surface low across Georgia and along a wedge front located across the western Piedmont of NC.

Began near Wallburg (35.9616, -80.0785).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Guilford County EF2 Davidson County EF1 Person County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 218497. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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