EF0 tornado in Hertford County, North Carolina

Tornado July 8, 2021 · Hertford County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

2.8 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

As Tropical Storm Elsa moved through northeast North Carolina, a band of showers and thunderstorms pushed across Hertford county. Within that band of storms, a brief tornado touched down near Harrellsville. The tornado tracked from Highway 45 north northwest across Wiccacon Road and Bazemore Road. Damage was limited to a few downed trees and numerous trees limbs down.

The wider storm

The center of Tropical Storm Elsa tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from Thursday morning through Thursday night, July 8th. Outer bands east of the Tropical Storm center produced two weak tornadoes across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near Harrellsville (36.3100, -76.8200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Camden County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 976770. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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