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EF0 tornado in Hanover County, Virginia

Tornado May 27, 2022 · Hanover 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 tornado tracked from Louisa county into Hanover county. The tornado took a discontinuous path to the northeast along or near Hopeful Church Road into Western Hanover County with mainly small limb damage observed. The next area of more significant damage was at a home along Pleasant Mill Road where multiple trees were snapped, one landing on a home. The damage at this location was widely sporadic in nature and confined to the property. Light tree and limb damage continued off to the northeast along Beaver Dam Road, before all damage came to an end near Beaver Dam Road and Tyler Station Road south of Beaverdam. It should be noted this tornado was likely not on the ground for the approximately 10 miles or time duration, as multiple discontinuities were found in the damage path.

The wider storm

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

Began near Mabelton (37.8240, -77.7600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Louisa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032381. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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