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EF0 tornado in Wayne County, North Carolina

Tornado October 8, 2016 · Wayne County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
250 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
$25K
Crop damage
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

Numerous softwood trees were blown down, snapped and uprooted along Highway 70 in Wayne county. Otherwise, several buildings sustained minor roof damage, a camper was damaged when it was lifted off the ground, one billboard was destroyed, and several fences were blown down and blown away.

The wider storm

Hurricane Matthew skirted by the North Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, dropping torrential rainfall of 8 to 15 inches and producing wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph across Central and Eastern North Carolina. The large swath of 8 to 15 inches of rain across Eastern and Central North Carolina, caused devastating and life threatening flash flooding, that evolved into major and record setting river flooding along portions of the Neuse, Cape Fear, and Tar river basins.

Matthew's inland flood waters resulted in 11 direct fatalities within the WFO RAH CWA, approximately $686 million in property damage to flooded homes and businesses, and $150 million in crop damage. Countless roads and highways were underwater, along with with numerous roads washed out, including sections of Interstates 95 and 40. Besides the 11 direct fatalities, at least 3 indirect fatalities also occurred.

In addition, the associated strong wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph resulted in 1 fatality, when a tree fell onto a moving vehicle. Finally, the associated EF-1 tornado in Wayne County resulted in $75 thousand in property damage.

Began near Bests (35.3230, -77.8625).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 662852. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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