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EF0 tornado in Russell County, Virginia

Tornado May 8, 2009 · Russell County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 briefly touched down about one mile northwest of Lebanon. The path length was one tenth of a mile and the path width was 20 yards. Maximum wind speed was 65 miles an hour.

The wider storm

A highly organized mesoscale convective vorticity maximum with strong low to mid tropospheric flow coupled with moderate instability resulted in the development of discrete supercellular thunderstorms. These storms produced a long-lived tornado across Northeast Tennessee late in the afternoon and another long duration tornado across Southwest Virginia later in the evening.

Began near Lebanon (36.9102, -82.0928).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Wise County EF2 Russell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 170983. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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