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EF0 tornado in Mathews County, Virginia

Tornado April 28, 2008 · Mathews County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

11.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Gloucester County → Mathews County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 tornado tracked into Mathews county from Gloucester county. The tornado produced intermittent damage about 1 to 2 miles west of North. Several trees were downed or snapped off and part of a convenience store roof was blown off.

The wider storm

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

Began near North (37.4359, -76.4515).

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 Southampton County EF0 James City

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 97934. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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