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EF0 tornado in Powhatan County, Virginia

Tornado May 5, 2017 · Powhatan County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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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 tracked from near the Norfolk Southern Railroad northeast to near the intersection of Bradbury Road (VA-672) and Moseley Road (VA-605). Many trees were found snapped or uprooted along this route, including several onto homes.

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 Moseley (37.4742, -77.7899).

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 Southampton County EF0 Lunenburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704452. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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