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EF1 tornado in Middlesex County, Virginia

Tornado February 24, 2016 · Middlesex County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$275K

Damage as recorded

$402K

Crop damage

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS storm survey concluded that an EF1 tornado with winds estimated around 100 mph affected Middlesex county near Remlik. The tornado destroyed a house on Reed Road, tore off the second story of a barn in Hampstead Farms, and tore off the roof of another barn in Corbin Farms.

The wider storm

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

Began near Warner (37.6485, -76.6492).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 King and Queen County EF1 Sussex County 3 dead EF1 Mecklenburg County EF1 Middlesex County EF0 Fluvanna County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 621822. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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