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Storm reports for February 15, 2021

NOAA recorded 10 hail reports, 30 wind reports and 6 tornado reports in 5 states on February 15, 2021.

in 5 states
46
Storm reports
About 40 miles from Gainesville, FL
1.75 in
Largest hail
About 27 miles from Wilmington, NC
110 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF3, about 26 miles from Myrtle Beach, SC
6
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on February 15, 2021 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

An EF3 tornado touched down at 11:34 p.m. EST on February 15, 2021, near Sunset Beach in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and stayed on the ground for 22 miles.1,2 Its winds reached 160 mph in the Ocean Ridge Plantation neighborhood, where it damaged or destroyed many well-built brick homes and left some with no walls standing.1 Near Highway 904 it overturned RVs and blew much of the roof off a metal building, and north of US 17 it rolled and destroyed a double-wide mobile home.1,2 Brunswick County Emergency Management reported three deaths and ten injuries.1

Earlier, at 4:38 p.m. EST, an EF2 tornado south of Damascus in Early County, Georgia, destroyed two homes down to their foundations and injured five people. NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $500,000 in property damage.3 Golf ball size hail, 1.75 inches across, fell in Lake City, Florida, and near Adrian, Georgia.4,5

Sources

  1. 1. NWS Wilmington, NC: Brunswick County, NC EF3 Tornado of February 15, 2021
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 945569, tornado, Brunswick County, North Carolina
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 942828, tornado, Early County, Georgia
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 934348, hail, Columbia County, Florida
  5. 5. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 933192, hail, Johnson County, Georgia

Reports by hour

Hail10, most at 3 PM

Wind30, most at 2 PM

Tornado6, most at 3 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
2:02 PMEF0About 55 miles from Crestview, FL1.31 mi long, 50 yd wide
2:39 PMEF0Near 30.60, -85.46, FL0.71 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:17 PMEF0About 43 miles from Gainesville, FL0.25 mi long, 60 yd wide
3:29 PMEF0About 45 miles from Tallahassee, FL0.5 mi long, 50 yd wide
3:38 PMEF2Near 31.30, -84.70, GA1.81 mi long, 600 yd wide
10:34 PMEF3About 26 miles from Myrtle Beach, SC21.9 mi long, 275 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Florida304233
Georgia11542
Alabama2020
North Carolina2011
South Carolina1100

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Savannah, GA1.5 inNone0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.