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EF1 tornado in Middlesex County, Virginia

Tornado April 16, 2011 · Middlesex County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 tracked from Lagrange Creek to Family Lane. The tornado destroyed one home and a grain silo. Numerous trees were downed and sheared off. The tornado may have had multiple vortices in the main funnel.

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 Samos (37.6743, -76.6037).

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 Dinwiddie County EF1 Southampton County EF0 Southampton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 303639. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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