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Tornado Warnings in Virginia, 2025

34 tornado warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
34
Busiest month
May17 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 30, 202511 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 8:47 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXLee32 min
Feb 6, 8:56 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXLee, Scott, Wise12 min
Feb 16, 10:18 AM ESTTornado WarningAKQCaroline, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 1 more27 min
Mar 5, 8:32 AM ESTTornado WarningRNKHenry, Patrick13 min
Mar 5, 12:01 PM ESTTornado WarningAKQGoochland, Hanover, Henrico, Powhatan29 min
Mar 5, 1:19 PM ESTTornado WarningAKQBrunswick, Dinwiddie26 min
Mar 5, 2:44 PM ESTTornado WarningAKQSouthampton, Surry, Sussex31 min
Mar 16, 6:19 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXShenandoah11 min
May 5, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQSouthampton, Sussex30 min
May 5, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQKing and Queen, King William15 min
May 15, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXAlbemarle, Greene27 min
May 15, 7:11 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXAlbemarle, Augusta, Rockingham34 min
May 16, 2:24 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXWise, City of Norton18 min
May 30, 12:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXBuchanan32 min
May 30, 12:46 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXBuchanan29 min
May 30, 5:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXPage, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Warren40 min
May 30, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFauquier, Rappahannock, Warren19 min
May 30, 6:36 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway24 min
May 30, 6:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax24 min
May 30, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFauquier, Loudoun, Prince William23 min
May 30, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQEssex, King and Queen30 min
May 30, 7:09 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXKing George20 min
May 30, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFauquier, Loudoun, Prince William14 min
May 30, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQRichmond, Westmoreland38 min
May 30, 8:04 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQWestmoreland15 min
Jun 6, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFrederick19 min
Jun 8, 12:45 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXStafford30 min
Jun 8, 2:37 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQRichmond, Westmoreland25 min
Jun 8, 3:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQRichmond23 min
Jun 8, 3:29 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester, King and Queen, Middlesex31 min
Jun 8, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield23 min
Jun 9, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake25 min
Jun 14, 9:59 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXOrange, Spotsylvania30 min
Sep 25, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXLoudoun8 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

6 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 30, 202511tornado warnings
  2. June 8, 20255tornado warnings
  3. March 5, 20254tornado warnings
  4. February 7, 20252tornado warnings
  5. May 5, 20252tornado warnings
  6. May 15, 20252tornado warnings
  7. February 16, 20251tornado warnings
  8. March 16, 20251tornado warnings
  9. May 16, 20251tornado warnings
  10. May 31, 20251tornado warnings
  11. June 6, 20251tornado warnings
  12. June 9, 20251tornado warnings

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.