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EF1 tornado in Hanover County, Virginia

Tornado September 17, 2018 · Hanover County, Virginia

EF1
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A brief EF1 tornado touched down just northwest of the intersection of Echo Meadows Road and Rockville Road in Hanover county. The storm then moved north northeast, causing numerous trees to be uprooted or snapped. In addition, an open shed was completely destroyed, with numerous round bales of hay moved into the field to the north. The tornado then lifted near Franklin Hills Drive.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with tropical cyclone Florence produced damaging winds and ten tornadoes across portions of central and south central Virginia.

Began near Rockville (37.7110, -77.6850).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Chesterfield County 1 deadEF1 Chesterfield CountyEF1 Richmond (c) CountyEF0 Mecklenburg CountyEF0 Powhatan CountyEF0 Richmond (c) CountyEF0 Richmond (c) CountyEF0 Richmond (c) CountyEF0 Richmond (c) CountyEF0 Hanover County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 786893. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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