EF0 tornado in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Tornado June 4, 2015 · Tyrrell County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado briefly touched down along Soundside Road northeast of Columbia. Minor damage to several homes was observed with one out building destroyed. A small aluminum boat was lifted and blown a small distance. Winds were estimated at 75 to 80 mph with no injuries or fatalities.

The wider storm

Numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms along a stalled front lifted northeast across eastern North Carolina during the early morning of June 4th 2015. One of the storms produced a very brief EF0 tornado that touched down over Tyrrell County county causing minor damage with no injuries.

Began near Columbia (35.9681, -76.2268).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 582969. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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