EF0 tornado in Rockingham County, North Carolina

Tornado May 5, 2017 · Rockingham County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

375 yd

Path width

$4.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 375 yards (0.21 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 thunderstorm produced an EF1 Tornado on the east side of Eden. The tornado was on the ground for approximately six minutes producing damage to trees, at least 25 residential structures, and a minimum of nine commercial structures. The tornado lifted just shy of the North Carolina and Virginia state boundary. Estimated wind speeds peaked around 110 miles per hour.

The wider storm

A migrating low pressure center crossed the western portions of the Mid-Atlantic Region allowing early morning scattered showers and thunderstorms to move into portions of North Central North Carolina. Some of these storms became severe, producing isolated wind damage and even an EF1 tornado which impacted the City of Eden.

Began near Eden (36.4869, -79.7452).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704286. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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