| Type: | Unknown |
| Active: | April 16th 2024 |
| Duration of tornado outbreak1: | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Maximum rated tornado2: | EF4 tornado |
| Highest winds | 180 MPH |
| Tornadoes confirmed: | 43 |
| Damage: | UNKNOWN |
| Injuries: | >272 |
| Fatalities: | >70 |
| Areas affected: | NC, SC |
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1Time from first tornado to last tornado | |
The April 16th tornado outbreak was a localized but significant tornado outbreak. Over the course of 5 hours and 47 minutes 43 tornadoes touched down. The strongest of these was an EF4 that devastated Smithfield and Selma, NC, killing 67 people and injuring over two hundred. It was the deadliest single tornado since the March 3rd 2019 Lee county tornado. Several other strong tornadoes touched down on the evening of April 16th.
| Confirmed Total |
Confirmed EF0 |
Confirmed EF1 |
Confirmed EF2 |
Confirmed EF3 |
Confirmed EF4 |
Confirmed EF5 |
| 43 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Confirmed Tornadoes[]
WIP
| EF# | Location | Time
EDT |
Max Width | Summary |
| EF1 | Fisher town, NC | 11:30AM | 143 Yards | Very little damage was reported with this tornado. |
| EF0 | Kannapolis, NC | 11:36AM | 10 Yards | Damage was confined to uprooted trees. |
| EF0 | Gaffney, SC | 11:58AM | 46 Yards | No damage was reported. |
| EF1 | Rockwell, NC | 12:01PM | 90 Yards | Trees snapped, shingles blew off, and downed
powerlines were evident across its path. |
| EF2 | Harrisburg, NC | 12:17PM | 230 Yards | 4 Deaths - Initially a weak tornado touched down
outside of Harrisburg, NC causing minor damage to UNCC. After crossing 485 the tornado rapidly Intensified causing major roof damage to the Wexford Apartments. After doing major damage to the outskirts It would weaken and then dissipate near downtown Harrisburg. |
| EF0 | Concord, NC | 12:28PM | 100 Yards | The supercell that caused major damage to Harrisburg, NC
would recycle and drop a rather large EF0 that caused minor roof damage to the far southern side of Concord. |
| EF1 | Denton, NC | 12:43PM | 55 Yards | Minor damage was reported. |
| EF2 | Rock Hill, SC | 12:47PM | 880 Yards | A strong tornado lofting debris heading for Rock hill was
reported around 12:50PM. At 12:55PM a Tornado Emergency was declared for the city of Rock hill, SC. As the tornado entered Rock Hill it began to destroy homes, pick up cars and displace them, and several powerpoles were snapped. |
| EF2 | New London, NC | 1:21PM | 700 Yards | Initially a small weak needle tornado touched down outside
of New London causing minor shingle damage. As the tornado moved north of New London it started producing Mid-end EF2 damage. After moving out of New London the tornado struck Whitney injuring 2 people. The tornado soon later crossed Badin Lake, then soon lifting. |
| EF4 | Asheboro, NC | 1:30PM | 1760 Yards | 49 Deaths - A large tornado touched down outside of
Asheboro, shortly after it struck the Asheville Regional Airport doing EF3 damage and killing 7. As the tornado entered Asheboro it began to do catastrophic damage consisting of houses swept, trees debarked, and cars mangled. Once a debris ball was evident on radar a TorE was issued. While in the city limits it would kill 41 people. The tornado would follow highway 49 and soon strike Ramseur and kill 1 person. This tornado would later lift. |
| EF0 | Waxhaw, NC | 1:31PM | 80 Yards | Minor damage was reported. |