EF0 tornado — Hertford County, North Carolina

EF0 tornado in Hertford County, North Carolina

Tornado August 4, 2020 · Hertford County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

5.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 damage survey conducted by the NWS Wakefield office found a path of storm damage consistent with an EF0 tornado. A weak tornado impacted a small area from Indian Creek to Panther Swamp, just to the east of Indian Branch Road in the Panther Swamp area. The tornado mainly caused damage to trees and lifted before reaching Parker Road and nearby Route 158.

The wider storm

The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th. Outer bands north and east of the Tropical Storm produced three tornadoes across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 913352. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Hertford County, North Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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