EF1 tornado in Lancaster County, Virginia
Tornado February 24, 2016 · Lancaster County, Virginia
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Middlesex County → Lancaster County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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 the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado that began as an EF0 in Middlesex county, intensified briefly to an EF1 in the Norwood Church Road area near Flagstaff Road in Lancaster county. In this area, a brick wall on a garage was flattened, the roof was ripped off a house, and an outbuilding was destroyed. Numerous large trees were snapped including two foot diameter pine trees. The tornado continued north and northeast for a short distance before lifting.
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 (37.7781, -76.6499).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 621851. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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