EF1 tornado in Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Tornado April 25, 2014 · Pasquotank County, North Carolina

EF1

Rating

6.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$100K

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

This EF-1 tornado occurred just south of another tornado which tracked from near Nixonton to just south southeast of Elizabeth City. The tornado path included a section of Nixonton Road and Body Road. Numerous trees were downed and a few mobile homes were damaged on Lobell Lane.

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 Nixonton (36.2000, -76.2800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Chowan County 1 dead EF0 Currituck County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 512774. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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