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EF1 tornado in Page County, Virginia

Tornado June 3, 2009 · Page County, Virginia

EF1
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
$300K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down at the intersection of Pond Avenue and Dogwood Lane. The path length was one and two-thirds of a mile and the path width was 600 yards. National Weather Service Survey indicated that the tornado was an EF-1 with wind speeds 90 to 100 mph.

The tornado was responsible for blowing a mobile home off its foundation. A wooden porch overhang on one home was also knocked down. The tornado also blew a roof of a barn on Young Drive and a grain storage device was also blown over. Several trees were down and a large VDOT salt storage garage was unroofed at the interstection of Forest Drive and Painters Woods Road. A carport was knocked down near the intersection of Aylor Grubbs Avenue and Bailey Lane. Several large trees were down near the 700 block of Brady Lane.

The wider storm

A cold front combined with an unstable atmosphere to trigger showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours of the third. Some thunderstorms were severe, producing large hail and damaging winds.

Began near Stanley (38.5838, -78.5218).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 181429. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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