EF0 tornado in Westmoreland County, Virginia

Tornado May 28, 2021 · Westmoreland County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 public reported a tornado crossing the beach near Spences Point Road.

The wider storm

A stationary front was draped across north central Virginia. A surface low developed and moved along the front in the late afternoon into early evening, allowing for a more focused region of damaging winds as well as a tornado.

Began near Westmoreland (38.0803, -76.5512).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 962810. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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