EF0 tornado in Halifax County, North Carolina

Tornado March 4, 2008 · Halifax County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak EF0 tornado touched down in southern Halifax County, approximately 4 miles to the east-southeast of Enfield, NC. The tornado

produced tree damage and took shingles off a home near the intersection of Thirteen Bridges Road and Douglas Hill Farm Road. The tornado downed and damaged numerous trees, as it tracked to the northeast into a swampy area for approximately one mile before lifting back up.

The wider storm

Central North Carolina endured a one-two punch of severe weather as a well developed upper low and negatively tilted upper trough moved across the region. The first round of severe storms began in the afternoon as discrete storms developed well ahead of an organized squall line. Minor wind damage was reported, along with an isolated tornado. The second round of severe storms came later that evening, as the squall line swept through the state, producing widespread wind damage and another brief tornado touchdown.

Began near Enfield Dunroamin Ar (36.1411, -77.6012).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Alamance County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 83414. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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