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F0 tornado in Wicomico County, Maryland

Tornado April 28, 2002 · Wicomico County, Maryland

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Tornado (F0) downed trees and sheared off numerous tree branches along 4 mile path that ended 2 miles southwest of Quantico. Track suggests damage was from the same tornado that affected Dorchester county.

Began near Quantico (38.3300, -75.8333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F3 Dorchester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5293532. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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