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EF0 tornado in Davie County, North Carolina

Tornado May 24, 2017 · Davie County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
5.9 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$9.6M
Damage as recorded

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

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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

NWS storm survey found the path of a strong tornado that touched down just south of the intersection of highways 601 and 801. Damage was initially limited to downed trees. However, the tornado intensified as it moved north/northeast, especially from Four Corners Rd to the Yadkin County line. A mobile home was flipped and completely destroyed in this area. An occupant was thrown approximately 30 feet, but survived. Another home had much of its roof blown off and a storage building also destroyed in this area. Numerous trees were also blown down. The tornado crossed into Yadkin County near Chinquapin Creek. The tornado was the strongest in Davie County since 2008, and was only the second official significant tornado (E/F2 or stronger) in the county's history.

The wider storm

Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed in advance of a cold front across western North Carolina during the afternoon. Multiple severe storms produced isolated tornadoes, with a couple of strong tornadoes impacting the northwest Piedmont. Sporadic wind damage occurred across the remainder of the area.

Began near Cana (36.0230, -80.6180).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 703192. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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