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EF0 tornado in Gloucester County, Virginia

Tornado March 5, 2025 · Gloucester County, Virginia

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$14K
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 waterspout moved onshore from the York River near Gloucester Institute in Gloucester County. Several large trees were downed on this property, a large propane tank was displaced several hundred feet, shingles were removed from a cottage, and a small pillar was shifted off the awning which it was supporting. The tornado quickly moved north northeast and lifted soon after crossing Allmondsville Road around 3:40 PM EST.

In addition to this, numerous trees were downed throughout

Gloucester County consistent with thunderstorm wind gusts

of 65 to 75 mph.

The wider storm

A deep trough over the Midwest and surface low near the Great Lakes brought a robust cold front into the Mid Atlantic region. A strongly-forced area of linear convection moved from west to east across portions of central into eastern Virginia. These storms mostly produced strong to severe straight line wind gusts but one waterspout moved ashore from the York River into Gloucester county, causing EF0 damage.

Began near Capahosic (37.3870, -76.6440).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1243361. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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