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EF0 tornado in Wicomico County, Maryland

Tornado August 4, 2020 · Wicomico County, Maryland

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$50K

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 brief EF0 tornado developed over the Wicomico River and tracked northwest across the Country Club South neighborhood and Green Hill Country Club. Minor damage occurred to several homes in the back section of Country Club south. Siding, shingles, and gutters were torn from houses and numerous trees were uprooted. Several trees were also uprooted on the golf course of the Green Hill Country Club.

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 five tornadoes across portions of the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore.

Began near Catchpenny (38.3290, -75.7318).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wicomico County EF2 Worcester County EF0 Worcester County EF0 Worcester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 913694. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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