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EF0 tornado in Lancaster County, Virginia

Tornado August 7, 2017 · Lancaster County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

2.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A weak tornado caused a few shingles and siding to be blown off a couple of homes, and trees were also blown down in the area.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with low pressure and a cold front produced damaging winds, one tornado, and heavy rain across portions of central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Weems (37.6571, -76.4500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 718308. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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