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EF0 tornado in Suffolk (c) County, Virginia

Tornado August 4, 2020 · Suffolk (c) County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

11.7 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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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

A damage survey conducted by the NWS Wakefield office found a path of storm damage consistent with an EF0 tornado. The damage began just west of the Great Dismal Swamp and ended 3.5 miles southeast of Windsor, VA just north of Highway 460. The damage was limited to snapped or uprooted trees along the path.

The wider storm

The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th. Outer bands north and east of the Tropical Storm produced seven tornadoes across portions of eastern and southeast Virginia.

Began near Skeeter Crossing (36.6570, -76.5620).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Southampton County EF2 Lancaster County EF1 Suffolk (c) County EF1 James City EF1 Gloucester County EF1 Northumberland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 913550. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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