EF1 tornado, Gum Neck, North Carolina, May 23, 2017

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF1

Date

May 23, 2017

Touchdown

6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)

Lifted

6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.6 miles (1.0 km)

Path width

40 yards (37 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Tyrrell County

Touchdown point

35.706, -76.132

Lift-off point

35.714, -76.126

Record number

1705231616-01

An EF1 tornado touched down just southeast of Gum Neck in Tyrrell County. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph, with a path length of 0.6 mile and maximum path width of 40 yards.

The National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City NC has confirmed|a tornado near Gum Neck in Tyrrell County North Carolina on May|23 2017.||A tornado touched down about one quarter mile southwest of the|intersection of South Gum Neck Road and Georgia Road, southeast of Gum|Neck. The tornado traveled northeast, first knocking down and snapping |trees before crossing South Gum Neck Road into a wheat field, flattening|the wheat crop along its path. The tornado then crossed Georgia Road, |knocking down a few trees including one large pecan tree near a|residence. One small barn also noted some metal roof damage. Maximum|winds are estimated at 100 mph, with a path length of 0.6 miles and|maximum path width of 40 yards. No injuries or fatalities occurred with|this tornado.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

35 minutes of warning. NWS MHX issued a tornado warning for this county at 21:41 UTC, 35 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 22:30 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Dare County Gunnery Range (2DP), 21 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:16 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2017 tornado in North CarolinaEvery tornado in North Carolina since 1950Warnings in force in North Carolina nowThe forecast where you are

11 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.