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EF0 tornado in Caroline County, Virginia

Tornado November 11, 2022 · Caroline County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through King and Queen County → Caroline County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

An EF0 tornado tracked from King and Queen county into Caroline county. The tornado struck a farm in Tignor at the intersection of Sparta Road and Tignor Road (Root Swamp Road becomes Tignor Road). Several outbuildings were heavily damaged or destroyed. One silo was damaged along with 3 tractors. The tornado dissipated just north of the farm.

The wider storm

A combination of Tropical Depression Nicole and the approach of a cold front caused scattered severe thunderstorms which produced damaging winds and two tornadoes across portions of central and south central Virginia.

Began near Tignor (37.9700, -77.1100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Dinwiddie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1066580. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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