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EF0 tornado in James City, Virginia

Tornado April 28, 2008 · James City, Virginia

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

A brief tornado touched down in James City county about 6 miles northwest of Jamestown. Several trees were uprooted or snapped off, and there was some minor damage to homes in the area.

The wider storm

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

Began near Jamestown (37.2614, -76.8571).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Suffolk (c) CountyEF1 Brunswick CountyEF1 Colonial Heights (c) CountyEF1 Greensville CountyEF1 Surry CountyEF1 Isle of Wight CountyEF1 Mathews CountyEF0 Southampton CountyEF0 Gloucester County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 97656. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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