EF1 tornado in King and Queen County, Virginia

Tornado February 24, 2016 · King and Queen County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

30.3 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$9.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through King and Queen County → Essex County → Richmond County → Westmoreland County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

Tornado initially touched down along Homlestown Road, then moved along Bruington Road where a home was destroyed and others were damaged just west of Millers Tavern. The tornado then crossed Highway 360 and moved into Essex county.

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 Bruington (37.8001, -76.9989).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Sussex County 3 dead EF1 Mecklenburg County EF1 Middlesex County EF1 Middlesex County EF0 Fluvanna County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 621865. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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