EF0 tornado in Northumberland County, Virginia

Tornado April 15, 2019 · Northumberland County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

1.3 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 brief EF0 tornado touched down just southwest of Heathsville along Dodlyt Road in Northumberland County. The tornado caused some roof damage to a barn and minor tree damage before lifting before crossing Route 360.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds and one tornado across portions of central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Walmsley (37.9008, -76.5189).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 820472. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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