EF0 tornado in Hertford County, North Carolina

Tornado August 4, 2020 · Hertford County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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

A weak EF0 tornado tracked just to the northeast of Como. The tornado snapped limbs and downed a few trees.

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.

Began near Como (36.5240, -76.9580).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Bertie County 2 dead EF0 Hertford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 913489. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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