EF0 tornado in Cherokee County, North Carolina

Tornado March 17, 2018 · Cherokee County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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

This tornado started near Upper Peachtree Road and Lizzie Elliot Road. It damaged a business nearby this intersection and tracked into the field behind it. There was debris scattered about the field and an overturned trailer near the creek. The tornado crossed and dissipated just past Lunsford Road and Pipes Branch. There was extensive tree and structural damage to homes and barns along Lunsford Road.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an upper level system and surface cold front during the evening hours. Several of these storms produced large hail and wind damage. Funnel clouds were reported as a discrete supercell thunderstorm developed over Southeast Tennessee and moved into Southwest North Carolina. As this supercell moved into Monroe County, Tennessee, a weak tornado developed downing several trees and producing minor structural damage.

Began near Peachtree (35.0946, -83.9271).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Clay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 737612. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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