EF1 tornado in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Tornado May 5, 2017 · Dinwiddie County, Virginia
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Brunswick County → Dinwiddie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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 the National Weather Service wrote
Tornado tracked from Brunswick county into Dinwiddie county. The tornado continued north northeast into Dinwiddie county along Old White Oak Road. It crossed Old White Oak road near Route 40, then continued north northeast before a visible damage path
ended just north of Lew Jones Road. Numerous trees were uprooted or sheared off, and there was significant damage to a few homes and one large shed was destroyed. Also, there was extensive crop damage, as well as damage to farm equipment and land damage.
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 Mc Kenney (36.9747, -77.7760).
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 704449. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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