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EF0 tornado in Chatham County, North Carolina
Tornado April 16, 2011 · Chatham County, North Carolina
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Moore County → Lee County → Chatham County → Wake County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado exited Lee County and move into extreme southeastern Chatham County, just south and east of Harris Lake. Only 2 homes sustained damage, with moderate
to major roof damage to one of the homes, when a tree crashed through it.
The wider storm
A strong storm system that had a history of producing deadly tornadoes across Oklahoma and the deep south on the 14th and 15th weakened as it crossed the southern Appalachians during the early morning hours of the 16th. A squall line descended the Blue Ridge by the late morning hours, and rapidly intensified
as it moved east into the central Piedmont of North Carolina, with four long live tornadic supercells evolving from the linear convective segment. These tornadic supercells went on to produce 9 tornadoes in the Raleigh CWA, including 2 EF3s, and 4 EF2s. The tornadoes left 8 dead with approximately 275 injuries.
Began near Brickhaven (35.5432, -79.0105).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 297662. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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