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EF0 tornado in Powhatan County, Virginia

Tornado June 16, 2022 · Powhatan County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

23.5 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$45K

Damage as recorded

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

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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

The tornado tracked from Goochland county into Powhatan county. The track paralleled the EF1 tornado with damage noted from south of Kent Store to south of Maidens and into northern Powhatan county. Some trees were uprooted or snapped, and there was very minor structural damage in northern Powhatan county before the tornado lifted.

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 Michaux (37.6800, -77.9460).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Fluvanna County EF0 Louisa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1042333. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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