Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998

Name: Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
Start: 1998-05-07T18:20
End: 1998-05-07T18:20
Location: North Carolina

May 7, 1998 · NWS RAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Guilford

When: May 7, 6:20 PM EST
Where: Guilford County, 1 mi SE of Greensboro Arpt
Rating: F1
Path length: 1.5 mi
Path width: 0.1 yd
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 36.080, -79.930

A tornado touched down approximately 1 mile southeast of the Piedmont-Triad International Airport near Greensboro. The first damage occurred just south of West Friendly Avenue. The tornado moved to the southeast and lifted at Jamestown Road approximately 1.5 miles from its initial touchdown. Damage was rated at F1 initially and F0 at the point it rose back into the thunderstorm. This tornado was produced by the same parent storm that produced the Clemmons tornado less than an hour before this one.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Carolina in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for North Carolina, 1998 Warnings in North Carolina, May 1998

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: 5648864.