EF0 tornado in Currituck County, North Carolina

Tornado August 1, 2021 · Currituck County, North Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 along the intersection of the Currituck Sound adjacent to the Currituck Club golf course. The tornado tracked south southeast along the 7th and 8th holes of the golf course and uprooted large trees and snapped numerous limbs. The tornado lifted shortly before crossing the intersection of Hunt Club Drive and Trumpeter Swan Court, but not before knocking down several large trees and ripping some shingles off of a house on Trumpeter Swan Court.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms along a frontal boundary produced damaging winds and one weak tornado across portions of northeast North Carolina.

Began near Poplar Branch (36.2951, -75.8094).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 979321. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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