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EF0 tornado in Hanover County, Virginia

Tornado June 30, 2012 · Hanover County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

6.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado downed numerous trees and produced some minor structural damage in the area. The tornado initially touched down near Williamsville Acres Lane, then tracked south southeast before lifting east of Mechanicsville near the intersection of Crown Hill Road and State Route 628.

The wider storm

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

Began near Studley (37.6900, -77.2900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 396491. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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