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Feb. 17 Efforts to survey areas of Brunswick County that were devastated by a tornado could continue into Wednesday afternoon. In the aftermath of the tornado that killed three and injured 10, Wilmington's National Weather Service has worked to better understand the storm by conducting a post-storm damage assessment. The tornado was the first to claim lives.
Brunswick County tornado updates: NWS explains findings for expansive and deadly storm
Star-News (Wilmington, NC)
National Weather Service is currently North of
U.S. 17, where they believe the tornado traveled after touching down in southern
Brunswick County.
Columbus County line, so it went almost from near the coast into
Columbus county, said
So far, the tornado is still indicative of a high end EF3, especially in the
Ocean Ridge Plantation area, which was hardest hit by the storm and was the subject of Tuesday s damage-assessment, Pfaff said.
The EF scale is used to assign a tornado a rating based on estimated wind speeds and related damage. Pfaff said a large portion of tornados in the Carolinas are about EF0, which is considered to cause light damage with 65-to-85 mph winds and EF1 s, which are considered to cause moderate damage and 86-to-110 mph winds, according to the