EF0 tornado — Nelson County, Virginia

EF0 tornado in Nelson County, Virginia

Tornado May 8, 2008 · Nelson County, Virginia

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$50K

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 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

Nelson County Emergency Management reported significant structural damage to two homes in Shipman, VA. An NWS Storm Survey determined this was due to brief EF0 tornado. Part of a roof was removed from a home while a porch was lifted from its foundation. Several trees were uprooted and a car was even tipped over.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system crossed the Mid Atlantic during the afternoon and evening hours of May 8th. This system along with warm temperatures and high dew points triggered numerous strong to severe showers and thunderstorms across the region. Two tornadoes occurred in central Virginia. Several storms produced damaging winds that downed trees and power lines in portions of northern and central Virginia. A few locations reported flooding as storms trained over the same area through the afternoon and evening.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 98711. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Nelson County, Virginia

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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