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EF0 tornado in Caroline County, Virginia

Tornado June 20, 2015 · Caroline County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$25K

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

A brief tornado touch down occurred less than one mile south of Bowling Green. Several trees were snapped off, and a couple of trees were downed. One large limb was downed on a mobile home. Additional large trees and power lines were downed in Fort A.P. Hill, along with significant damage to several large tents.

The wider storm

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

Began near Bowling Green (38.0429, -77.3226).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 589194. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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