EF0 tornado in Beaufort County, North Carolina

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Beaufort County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

29 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 29 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

A brief tornado formed initially as a waterspout in the Pamlico River and came ashore in the town of Bayview, NC near Berkley Rd. The tornado tossed a boat off its lift, damaging the pier nearby before it became submerged in the river. Traveling northeast, it uprooted and snapped a few softwood pine trees and broke off multiple large branches, landing on a nearby home damaging it. The tornado then crossed Ormond Rd into a trailer park where, luckily, only a few large shrubs, small branches,and a cable line were destroyed. The damage was consistent with EF0 tornado damage.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms with embedded tornadoes swept through Eastern North Carolina during the morning hours between sunrise and noon. Widespread reports of wind damage, including tornadoes, were observed. Six total tornadoes occurred, 5 EF0's, and 1 EF1.

Began near Bayview (35.4346, -76.7884).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Onslow County EF0 Jones County EF0 Washington County EF0 Jones County EF0 Craven County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 876631. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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