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EF0 tornado in Southampton County, Virginia

Tornado April 16, 2011 · Southampton County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$2K

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

EF0 tornado damaged several trees and downed several others across rural portions of western Southampton county. In addition, tornado also damaged a fence near the end of the tornado path.

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 Manry (36.8863, -77.0256).

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 EF1 Middlesex County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 345215. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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