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F1 tornado in Fauquier and Loudoun County, Virginia

Tornado April 16, 1993 · Fauquier and Loudoun County, Virginia

F1
Rating
1.2 mi
Path length
80 yd
Path width
$500K
Damage as recorded
What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

A tornado touched down 0.5 mile south of Paris in northern Fauquier County. It moved through the main portion of Paris where it did its greatest damage. Along Main Street ten homes sustained minor damage, primarily to roofs and chimneies. Two homes had their roofs destroyed, one of which was just outside town limits north of town. The tornado continued north northwest, crossing the Loudoun County line about 0.5 mile north northwest of Paris. The tornado lifted up approximately 0.7 mile north northwest of Paris. Numerous trees were uprooted or broken along the path from Paris into extreme southwest Loudoun County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10356891. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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