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EF0 tornado in District of Columbia, District of Columbia

Tornado July 1, 2021 · District of Columbia, District of Columbia

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 tornado separate from the one that impacted the National Mall touched down in the H Street Corridor at 9:08 PM EDT. A large tree limb fell on two cars along the 600 block of I Street Northeast. A large hardwood tree was snapped along the 900 block of 7th Street Northeast and fell due north. Numerous smaller tree limbs were downed in this area.

The tornado proceeded east along the H Street corridor, crossing over Maryland Avenue Northeast causing intermittent downed tree limbs. Several hardwood trees were down near the Rosedale Recreation Center property, falling due west. The circulation then diminished at 9:10 PM EDT.

The wider storm

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms produced two tornadoes, hail, and widespread wind damage (some significant) across the DC metro and central Maryland, with spottier wind damage extending into the Baltimore area.

Began near Us Capitol (38.9014, -76.9973).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 District of Columbia

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 958235. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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