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EF0 tornado in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Tornado March 18, 2021 · Isle of Wight County, Virginia

EF0
Rating
4.2 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 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 touched down just east of Route 258 near the Town of Walters. The damage began as it crossed Stevens Drive, where large tree branches were broken. The tornado then tracked east northeast and uprooted numerous trees near Ballard Road. After crossing Ballard Road, the tornado knocked down a pole barn, destroyed a garage, and damaged a roof of a house near Collosse Road. The tornado continued to track eastward, roughly following Rhodes Drive, where it blew a roof off of a church near Little Norfolk Road. The tornado did more tree damage before lifting shortly after crossing Spivey Town Road.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of low pressure and an associated frontal boundary produced damaging winds, large hail, and one tornado across portions of southeast Virginia.

Began near Walters (36.7597, -76.8566).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 948939. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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