EF0 tornado in Richmond (c) County, Virginia

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

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$3K

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

The tornado touched down in the City of Richmond on the north side of the James River between Byrd Park and the Powhite Parkway. The tornado continued across the Powhite Parkway into the Windsor Farms section of the City of Richmond. The tornado mainly snapped and uprooted trees along its path.

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 (37.5372, -77.4909).

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 EF1 Richmond (c) County EF0 Mecklenburg County EF0 Powhatan County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Richmond (c) County EF0 Hanover County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 786936. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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