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EF1 tornado in Greensville County, Virginia

Tornado April 28, 2008 · Greensville County, Virginia

EF1

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 tornado touched down in the Low Ground Road area of the southeat part of Greensville County. Numerous trees were downed or snapped off, and a couple of outbuildings were damaged.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced numerous tornadoes across central and eastern Virginia.

Began near Gaskins (36.5837, -77.4267).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Suffolk (c) County EF1 Brunswick County EF1 Colonial Heights (c) County EF1 Surry County EF1 Isle of Wight County EF1 Mathews County EF0 Southampton County EF0 James City EF0 Gloucester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 97359. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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