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EF1 tornado in Brunswick County, Virginia

Tornado May 5, 2017 · Brunswick County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

2.4 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$450K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

The tornado first touched down in far northern Brunswick county, northwest of Rawlings off Baskerville Mill Road. The tornado uprooted trees before continuing north northeast into Dinwiddie county along Old White Oak Road.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of low pressure and its associated cold front produced damaging winds and six tornadoes across portions of central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Rawlings (36.9716, -77.7774).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Dinwiddie County EF1 Mecklenburg County EF0 Southampton County EF0 Powhatan County EF0 Lunenburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704447. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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