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EF1 tornado in Dinwiddie County, Virginia

Tornado April 16, 2011 · Dinwiddie County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

7.0 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

Tornado path started on Doyle Road west of Glebe Road and then tracked east-northeast to the Five Forks area of Dinwiddie county. Hundreds of trees were either downed or snapped off. Numerous power lines were also downed, and there were several homes and outbuildings with minor to moderate damage. Most significant damage was on Patillo Road at Wooded Lane, and on Wilkinson Road near Shannon Drive.

The wider storm

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

Began near Dewitt (37.0571, -77.6902).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Gloucester County 2 dead EF2 Middlesex County EF2 Isle of Wight County EF1 Lunenburg County EF1 Southampton County EF1 Middlesex County EF0 Southampton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 303327. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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