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EF0 tornado in Pitt County, North Carolina

Tornado April 25, 2014 · Pitt County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Trained spotter observed a tornado briefly touch down about 5 miles west of Greenville. There was no observed damage.

The wider storm

A cold front approached eastern North Carolina during the afternoon of April 25th 2014. Warm southerly winds ahead of the front produced good instability over the region and numerous showers and thunderstorms crossed during the afternoon and evening. Two super-cell thunderstorms produced the bulk of the severe weather with multiple tornadoes reported in parts of Greene, Pitt and Beaufort counties. There was one indirect fatality as and elderly woman located near Washington died from pneumonia as a result of injuries sustained during the tornado. Total dollar damage was estimated at 15 million dollars.

Began near Arthur (35.6000, -77.4600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Beaufort County 1 deadEF2 Pitt CountyEF1 Greene CountyEF0 Greene County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 505735. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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