EF0 tornado in Northampton County, North Carolina

Tornado April 19, 2019 · Northampton County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado touched down 4 miles west of Gaston in western Northampton County, just north of Lake Gaston. The tornado tracked north and crossed Highway 46 near Cherry Tree Road before lifting. Damage consisted of trees being uprooted and snapped.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of low pressure and its associated cold front produced damaging winds and three tornadoes across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near Vultare (36.4900, -77.7200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Northampton County EF0 Northampton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 822086. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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