EF0 tornado in Virginia Beach (c) County, Virginia

Tornado July 10, 2014 · Virginia Beach (c) County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

Injuries

$300K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

A weak tornado caused significant damage to a home from the roof being blown off. There was also damage to several other structures including a school gymnasium. A large pool window was blown out also.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds, large hail, and one weak tornado across portions of south central and southeast Virginia. Scattered thunderstorms also produced heavy rain which caused some minor flooding.

Began near Virginia Beach (36.8432, -75.9763).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 539170. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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