EF0 tornado — Louisa County, Virginia

EF0 tornado in Louisa County, Virginia

Tornado May 27, 2022 · Louisa County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

11.1 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Louisa County → Hanover County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The National Weather Service in Wakefield has surveyed the storm damage in far eastern Louisa County and western Hanover County, and found it consistent with damage from a high-end EF0 tornado with peak winds of 85 mph. The tornado touched down at a farm off of Crewsville Road in Eastern Louisa County, damaging multiple trees and destroying a chicken coup. It should be noted that many of the trees here were already in poor shape or damaged from a winter storm earlier in the year. The tornado then tracked from Louisa county into Hanover county.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds and two tornadoes across portions of central Virginia.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032378. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Louisa County, Virginia

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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