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EF0 tornado in Greensville County, Virginia

Tornado April 19, 2019 · Greensville County, Virginia

EF0
Rating
21.7 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$93K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Halifax County, North Carolina → Northampton County, North Carolina → Greensville County → Greensville County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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 tracked from Northampton county North Carolina into Greensville county Virginia. The tornado tracked across Skippers Road where additional trees were snapped. The tornado then briefly lifted while shifting its track slightly east, while remaining in Greensville county.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of low pressure and its associated cold front produced damaging winds and numerous tornadoes across portions of central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Dahlia (36.5500, -77.5400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Charles City (c) CountyEF2 Louisa CountyEF1 Sussex CountyEF1 Southampton CountyEF0 Greensville CountyEF0 Brunswick CountyEF0 Emporia CountyEF0 Isle of Wight CountyEF0 York CountyEF0 Newport News (c) CountyEF0 Gloucester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 822097. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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