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From: "MAWS Storm Report" <MAWS_Storm_Report-help{at}listbot.com>
Subject: NWS 5/13/00 Storm Evaluation
To: "MAWS Storm Report" <MAWS_Storm_Report{at}listbot.com>
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
900 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2000
...RESULTS FROM STORM DAMAGE SURVEYS...
NWS REPRESENTATIVES CONDUCTED SURVEYS OF STORM DAMAGE IN ALBEMARLE
COUNTY/CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE AND SOUTHERN FAIRFAX COUNTY VIRGINIA
SUNDAY.
...IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY/CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE... WHILE MOST OF THE
DAMAGE
WAS DUE TO THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURSTS...THERE WAS ONE PATH DETERMINED TO BE
THAT OF AN F1 TORNADO. THIS TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN ON THE NORTH
SIDE
OF THE FARMINGTON COUNTRY CLUB AND TRAVELLED TO THE
EAST-NORTHEAST...CROSSING BARRACKS ROAD...AND REACHING ALBEMARLE HIGH
SCHOOL. HUNDREDS OF LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED IN THIS PATH... SOME OF
WHICH BROUGHT DOWN POWER AND TELEPHONE LINES. UPON REACHING THE HIGH
SCHOOL...TORNADO WINDS TOOK INSULATION FROM UNDERNEATH MODULAR
CLASSROOMS
AND SPLATTERED IT ALONG NEARBY WALLS.
ALTHOUGH NO LONGER TORNADIC AFTER THIS POINT...THE STORM CONTINUED
EAST-NORTHEAST...CROSSING HYDRAULIC ROAD AND U.S. ROUTE 29. IN THE
VICINITY OF THE GARDENS SHOPPING CENTER AND ALBEMARLE SQUARE SHOPPING
CENTER...A PLACE GLASS WINDOW OF A RESTAURANT SHATTERED...RESULTING IN
ONE INJURY. THE STORM MAY HAVE BEEN BRIEFLY TORNADIC ONCE AGAIN AT
THIS POINT.
THE DAMAGE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES LONG AND BETWEEN 200 AND 300
YARDS WIDE. F1 DAMAGE WAS CONFIRMED FOR THE FIRST TWO AND A QUARTER
MILES. ESTIMATED WIND SPEED FOR AN F1 TORNADO IS BETWEEN 75 AND 112 MPH.
THERE WAS ADDITIONAL DAMAGE ON THE NORTH AND WEST SIDES OF
CHARLOTTESVILLE...MOSTLY OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS. THIS DAMAGE WAS DUE
TO THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURSTS...WITH ESTIMATED MAXIMUM SPEEDS OF 80 TO 100
MPH.
...IN FAIRFAX COUNTY...
AN AREA OF SOUTHERN FAIRFAX COUNTY WAS SURVEYED FROM THE CAPITAL
BELTWAY TO MOUNT VERNON...FORT BELVOIR...AND LORTON. THIS DAMAGE CAN
BE CHARACTERIZED AS WIDESPREAD BUT SCATTERED DAMAGE DUE TO THUNDERSTORM
DOWNBURSTS. MOST OF THE DAMAGE WAS TO TREES AND POWER LINES...ALTHOUGH
A
FEW TREES CAME DOWN UPON HOMES. A HOME IN THE WALNUT RIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD
HAD PART OF ITS ROOF PEELED OFF. HOWEVER...THE AREA WITH THE MOST
CONCENTRATED DAMAGE WAS AROUND ROUTE 1 AND WOODLAWN ROAD.
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