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EF0 tornado in Middlesex County, Virginia

Tornado February 24, 2016 · Middlesex County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

6.1 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$387K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Middlesex County → Lancaster County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

Tornado began as an EF0 near a Boy Scout Camp in Middlesex county. It then crossed the Rappahannock River into Lancaster county where it intensified to an EF1.

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 Morattico (37.7488, -76.6854).

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 621848. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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