EF1 tornado in Currituck County, North Carolina

Tornado April 16, 2011 · Currituck County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

2.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$807K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 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

Tornado moved inland off the Albemarle Sound and continued east northeast across Route 158, and then toward Currituck Sound. Numerous trees were downed or snapped off, and there was damage to several commercial buildings and a few homes. Vehicles were overturned and several boats were lifted across Route 158.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds, large hail, and several tornadoes across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near Harbinger (36.0968, -75.8325).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Bertie County 12 dead EF1 Northampton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 304138. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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