EF1 tornado — Mecklenburg County, Virginia

EF1 tornado in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Tornado May 5, 2017 · Mecklenburg County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

14.8 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$200K

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 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 briefly touched down along and just south of the John Kerr Reservoir in southern Mecklenburg county. The tornado caused minor tree damage along Phyllis Road south of Boydton, uprooting a few trees and snapping off several others. The tornado lifted and continued north northeast crossing Route 58, before touching

down again in Baskerville along Baskerville Road, and uprooting and breaking numerous trees. A barn on Baskerville Road was destroyed with at least two walls failing. Some additional minor structural damage to flashing was noted to another outbuilding just north of VA-47.

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704454. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF1 tornado in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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