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F2 tornado in Chesapeake County, Virginia

Tornado August 6, 1993 · Chesapeake County, Virginia

Rating

2.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

At approximately 1600 EDT, a tornado moved through the Great Bridge area of Cheasapeake. It first struck along Hanbury Road near Great Bridge High School just west of Route 168 and moved east through Etheridge Manor and Etheridge Woods subdivisions. At least 35 homes were damaged. A brick two-car garage was flattened, several roofs were at least partially gone and numerous houses had the attic portion of the walls blown out. Numerous trees were blown down falling onto houses.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10356865. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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