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EF1 tornado in Hyde County, North Carolina

Tornado April 7, 2014 · Hyde County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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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

The second tornado produced from the same super-cell thunderstorm touched down near Ponzer. The tornado was rated as an EF1 with winds estimated at 105 mph. A home near Ponzer was pushed off its foundation but remained intact. Several trees were snapped or blow down. The tornado then tracked about a mile through rural areas before dissipating.

The wider storm

A warm front lifted north through eastern North Carolina during the afternoon of April 7th 2014. In the wake of the front warm and unstable air spread north across the area. A small cluster of thunderstorms developed over eastern Beaufort County with one storm becoming severe and eventually producing a series of tornadoes. An EF2 tornado impacted parts of Beaufort County with an E1 over mainland Hyde County. There were no fatalities and 5 injuries associated with the tornadoes.

Began near Ponzer (35.6000, -76.5400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Beaufort County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 505502. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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