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EF0 tornado in Chowan County, North Carolina

Tornado June 20, 2021 · Chowan County, North Carolina

EF0
Rating
3.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 tornado touched down near Somerset in Chowan county. The main damage was to trees that snapped off and large limbs that came down to block roadways. Tree damage was discovered beginning near the intersection of Indian Trail Road and Sycamore Road. The tornado continued to move eastward with more tree damage occurring along portions of Drummond Point Road before lifting after damaging more trees along Lloyd Overton Lane. No structures were damaged from the tornado, except for a metal building that had a tree fall on it.

The wider storm

Isolated severe thunderstorm associated with a surface trough produced a weak tornado across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near St Johns (36.0403, -76.4880).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 970000. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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