EF1 tornado in Richmond (c) County, Virginia

Tornado September 17, 2018 · Richmond (c) County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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

An EF1 tornado touched down in the Stony Point area of the City of Richmond just south of West Huguenot Road. The tornado then tracked northward into Tuckahoe before lifting just south of Three Chopt Road. Numerous trees were downed or snapped with air conditioning units blown off the West End Church near West Parham Road.

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 Richmond (37.5300, -77.5800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Chesterfield County 1 dead EF1 Hanover County EF1 Chesterfield County EF0 Mecklenburg County EF0 Powhatan County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Hanover County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 786914. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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