TornadoLookup

Home / North Carolina / Pasquotank

EF0 tornado in Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Tornado April 25, 2014 · Pasquotank County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
71.4 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
1
Death
3
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.

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A weak EF-0 tornado touched down north of Elizabeth City near the intersection of Highway 17 and North St. The tornado tracked northeast removing shingles from homes and snapping numerous trees.

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 Elizabeth City (36.3380, -76.2410).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 517807. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.