EF0 tornado in McDowell County, North Carolina

Tornado April 10, 2021 · McDowell County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

NWS storm survey found the path of a weak tornado that touched down near the intersection of Muddy Creek Rd and Autumn View Dr. The tornado moved northeast, just west of Muddy Creek Rd, ripping the flat roof off of a shed at a home, and causing numerous trees to fall.

The wider storm

A line of heavy rain showers and thunderstorms moved over the North Carolina foothills during the late afternoon and evening in advance of a cold front. A couple of areas of isolated damaging winds along with weak tornadoes were reported as the line swept across the area.

Began near Dysortville (35.6670, -81.8600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Rutherford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 957076. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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