EF0 tornado in King and Queen County, Virginia

Tornado May 22, 2014 · King and Queen County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5K

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

An EF0 tornado briefly touched down in the Bruington area. Numerous trees were downed.

The wider storm

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

Began near Powcan (37.7800, -76.9400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Prince George County EF0 Sussex County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 523996. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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