EF0 tornado in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Tornado April 20, 2009 · Isle of Wight County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

7.9 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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

EF0 tornado tracked along a nearly 8 mile track from near Raynor east-northeast to approximately one mile northwest of Smithfield. Damage along the path was intermittent and primarily characterized by trees topped out or blown down. There was also minor damage to homes and sheds in the form of shingles off roofs and siding peeled away. In addition, a few metal roofs were damaged.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced large hail, damaging winds, and one tornado across portions of central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Raynor (36.9500, -76.7800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 167751. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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