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EF0 tornado in Louisa County, Virginia

Tornado June 16, 2022 · Louisa County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

2.1 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A brief EF0 tornado tracked just west of Mineral from the High School to Kennon Road. Trees and power lines were downed. Baseball stands and fencing were significantly damaged.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with a warm front produced damaging winds, large hail, and three tornadoes across portions of central Virginia.

Began near Mineral (38.0200, -77.9300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Fluvanna County EF0 Fluvanna County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1041895. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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