EF0 tornado in Albemarle County, Virginia

The second of two tornadoes spawned by a supercell thunderstorm

on the afternoon of August 6th occurred over Broadus Wood

Elementary School on VA-663 Buck Mountain Road in Earlysville,

Virginia. It was on the ground only briefly, uprooting several

trees, and snapping two, in a convergent manner over a brief path

on and adjacent to the elementary school grounds. While there was

fencing damage on the school grounds, no damage was noted to the

school building.

This tornado was embedded in a larger area of intense straight-

line winds that produced numerous instances of downed trees across

Free Union, Earlysville and Hollymead just northwest of Albemarle

County Airport. NWS 88D Doppler Radar showed persistent rotation

in this area, but the only evidence of tornadic damage on the

ground was over this brief path.

A slow-moving warm front sparked multiple rounds of isolated severe thunderstorms across the Middle Atlantic on Thursday, August 6th, 2020. The first moved through the greater DC metro area during the early morning hours. The second was a supercell that moved across the southern Shenandoah River Valley and central Virginia Piedmont, causing significant damage and unusually large hail for so late in the season. A final (third) round of thunderstorms affected northern Virginia with isolated wind damage during the mid to late evening hours.