EF2 tornado in Chowan County, North Carolina

Tornado April 25, 2014 · Chowan County, North Carolina

EF2

Rating

71.4 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$4.1M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Bertie County → Chowan County → Perquimans County → Chowan County → Perquimans County → Pasquotank County → Pasquotank County → Pasquotank County → Camden County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 tornado tracked from the Chowan River east-northeast through Chowan county into the Bear Swamp at the Chowan/Perquimans county line. Trees were downed or snapped off and power lines were downed near Macedonia Road and Chambers Ferry Road. The tornado then continued northeast into Perquimans county from Chowan county. Damage in much of the tornado path was EF-0 to EF-1 in intensity.

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 Edenton (36.0600, -76.7050).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Pasquotank County EF0 Currituck County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 512777. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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