EF0 tornado in Catawba County, North Carolina

Tornado October 26, 2010 · Catawba County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.2M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A tornado moved from Lincoln County, into southwest Catawba County, with intermittent damage noted to trees. The tornado finally lifted near Cat Square Rd, where a school received some minor structural damage.

The wider storm

Scattered supercell thunderstorms developed over the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia as strong wind shear and moderate instability overspread the region ahead of a strong cold front. A number of tornadoes were spawned by the storms. Two strong tornadoes affected the western piedmont and foothills of North Carolina.

Began near Plateau (35.5660, -81.4440).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Catawba County EF0 Rutherford County EF0 Catawba County EF0 Polk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 265847. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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