Tornado, Craven
- When
- August 26, 2:10 PM EST
- Where
- Craven County, 8 mi NW of Havelock
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 34.970, -76.980
Tornado in North Carolina, August 26, 1998
A brief tornado touchdown in the Riverdale section of Craven county, about 8 miles northwest of Havelock. This storm completely knocked a home off it's foundation and caused damage to several other homes in the neighborhood.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
A brief tornado touchdown in the Riverdale section of Craven county, about 8 miles northwest of Havelock. This storm completely knocked a home off it's foundation and caused damage to several other homes in the neighborhood. The home that was destroyed had an anemometer which stopped on 105 mph.
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5660949.