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EF0 tornado in Southampton County, Virginia

Tornado April 28, 2008 · Southampton County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 touched down about a half mile east of Capron off Highway 58 near Douglas Drive. Several trees were downed or snapped off.

The wider storm

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

Began near Capron (36.7045, -77.2048).

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 Greensville County EF1 Surry County EF1 Isle of Wight County EF1 Mathews County EF0 James City EF0 Gloucester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 97603. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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