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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Virginia

Tornado April 27, 2011 · Washington County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Reedy Creek Tornado. A NWS Storm Survey reported an EF0 tornado touched down near Reedy Creek. It had a path width of 50 yards and a path length of 0.5 miles. The max wind of 70 mph downed many trees.

The wider storm

Favorable atmospheric conditions resulted in a deadly tornado outbreak across southwest Virginia on the 27th. The tornadoes produced from light to heavy damage to many homes and businesses across southeast Virginia. The thunderstorms produced 4 tornadoes across the area along with 4 deaths and 50 injured.

Began near Haskell (36.6502, -82.2034).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Washington County 4 dead EF1 Washington County EF1 Washington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 301187. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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