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EF0 tornado in Clarke County, Virginia

Tornado August 8, 2024 · Clarke County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

4.8 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$275K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Loudoun County → Clarke 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

As the tornado continued further west towards the top of the Blue Ridge, additional tree damage was observed in the vicinity of Blue Ridge Mountain Road and Morgans Mill Road where approximately two dozen trees were uprooted and others sustained branch damage. The tornado then dissipated as it moved westward into Clarke County, VA.

The wider storm

The remnants of Tropical Cyclone Debby spawned a few tornadoes in northern Virginia and eastern West Virginia.

Began near Claytonville (39.0614, -77.8910).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Stafford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1207675. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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