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EF1 tornado in Suffolk (c) County, Virginia

Tornado December 24, 2020 · Suffolk (c) County, Virginia

EF1
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 EF1 tornado, with peak winds estimated to be around 90 mph. The damage began on the south side of Corinth Chapel Road in the far southwest portion of City of Suffolk Virginia, and ended just west of the intersection of Corinth Chapel Road and Gates Road in Suffolk. The tornado caused significant damage to at least one home, uprooted and snapped off several large trees, and flipped over a large pickup truck. The circulation that produced this tornado lifted off the ground after its end location and later produced a 2nd tornado approximately six miles to the northeast in the vicinity of Dutch Road in Suffolk Virginia.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a strong cold front produced damaging winds and two tornadoes across portions of eastern and southeast Virginia.

Began near Cleopus (36.5829, -76.8305).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Suffolk (c) County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 934816. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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