F2 tornado — Jones County, North Carolina

F2 tornado in Jones County, North Carolina

Tornado April 15, 1999 · Jones County, North Carolina

Rating

33.0 mi

Whole path

900 yd

Path width

Injuries

$6.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Duplin County → Jones County → Lenoir County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 900 yards (0.51 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

The wider storm

On the night of April 15, 1999 several tornadoes touched down. One multi-vortex tornado touched down in Duplin County about a half mile south of Kenansville. The tornado tracked east northeast between Pink Hill and Beulaville and just to the north of Potters HIll before entering Jones County. Once in Jones County the tornado passed just north of Hargetts crossroads and traced north of Route 41... ending near the intersection of Routes 58 and 41. The tornado track covered nearly 30 miles and ranged between a half mile to around one mile wide. An unconfirmed wind report of 165 mph was measured near Trenton. In total... hundreds of trees were knocked down, over 30 homes were destroyed, 60 homes suffered major damage, and a significant number of livestock were killed,

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5687295. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in Jones County, North Carolina

The wider storm

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