EF0 tornado in Currituck County, North Carolina

Tornado April 25, 2014 · Currituck County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

The damage with this EF-0 tornado consisted of numerous trees down and snapped off and damage to a nearby church outbuilding and playground.

The wider storm

An area of low pressure and an attendant cold front crossed the Mid-Atlantic Region on April 25, producing severe wind gusts and four tornadoes, including two long tracked EF-2 tornadoes over northeast North Carolina during the evening.

Began near Jarvisburg (36.1985, -75.8710).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Chowan County 1 dead EF1 Pasquotank County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 512579. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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