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EF0 tornado in Rutherford County, North Carolina

Tornado June 8, 2019 · Rutherford County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

Media released drone footage of multiple downed trees around a home on Webb Rd. The trees were arranged in a distinct convergent/rotational pattern, indicating tornado damage.

The wider storm

A moist upslope flow developing north of a stationary front resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms developing across western North Carolina during the evening of the 8th into the overnight and early morning hours of the ninth. Four to seven inches of rain, with locally higher amounts of 10 inches or more falling over the northern foothills resulted in flash flooding in multiple areas. The widespread nature of the excessive rainfall within the Catawba River watershed caused the river to rise to levels not seen in almost 80 years in the western Piedmont, with flooding persisting in some areas through the 10th. Meanwhile, a brief, weak tornado developed across Rutherford County.

Began near Ellenboro (35.3040, -81.7440).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 839988. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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