EF0 tornado — Camden County, North Carolina

EF0 tornado in Camden County, North Carolina

Tornado July 8, 2021 · Camden County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 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

As Tropical Storm Elsa moved through northeast North Carolina, a band of showers and thunderstorms pushed across the Pasquotank River and Camden county. Within that band of storms, a brief tornado developed as the storms crossed the river and the tornado moved ashore near Sunset Avenue and tracked northeast about 1.3 miles to near Areneuse Creek and Route 343. The tornado snapped numerous trees, ripped the roof off of a boat house on the river, and destroyed an outbuilding when a large pine tree fell on it.

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 976780. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Camden County, North Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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