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EF0 tornado in Richmond County, Virginia

Tornado April 3, 2024 · Richmond County, Virginia

EF0
Rating
5.8 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$276K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 touched down in Richmond County near Luttrellville Lane and Chevy Place at 404 PM EDT. A storage shed was demolished and numerous trees were uprooted consistent with EF-0 damage. The tornado quickly moved northeast across Ridge Road and into Northumberland County, causing additional damage.

The wider storm

An upper level low occluded over the Great Lakes on April 3 with a stationary front across southern Virginia on the morning of the 3rd lifting north as a warm front into the afternoon. Meanwhile, a secondary surface low formed across southwestern Virginia in the morning and gradually drifted east through the afternoon along with a trailing cold front. This setup produced scattered severe storms including a tornado in the Northern Neck.

Began near Farnham (37.9330, -76.6004).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172757. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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