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EF0 tornado in Hanover County, Virginia

Tornado September 17, 2018 · Hanover County, Virginia

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Public video of a tornado touchdown near Atlee High School. Tornado touched down briefly then lifted off the ground causing no damage.

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 Atlee (37.6601, -77.4107).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 788231. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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