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EF0 tornado in Southampton County, Virginia

Tornado May 5, 2017 · Southampton County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$6K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 first touched down just north of Route 460 along Crumpler road (VA-618) just north of the town of Ivor in northern Southampton County. The tornado continued north northeast, crossing adjacent Warrique Road and Aberdeen Road. The survey team found several trees uprooted along this route, with chunks of asphalt from

nearby road construction found to be scattered in the field. The tornado continued north northeast into Surry county.

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 Camp Corner (36.9321, -76.9175).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Brunswick County EF1 Dinwiddie County EF1 Mecklenburg County EF0 Powhatan County EF0 Lunenburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704450. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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