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EF0 tornado in Caswell County, North Carolina

Tornado March 4, 2008 · Caswell County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
2.8 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$2.1M
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Alamance County → Caswell County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

An EF-0 tornado touched down in Alamance county North Carolina, moving north into southern Caswell county. Winds were estimated to be between 70 and 75 mph. This tornado was on the ground sporadically for one half mile crossing Vinson Road south of Anderson before lifting. This tornado caused damage to a barn near Vinson Road and downed several trees. It downed a large tree on a home along Vinson Road, blew a detached garage off its foundation and downed several large trees before lifting about one mile south of Anderson.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moving through the area resulted in severe thunderstorms producing wind damage and an isolated tornado.

Began near Jericho (36.2366, -79.3700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 87950. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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