Tornadoes in Virginia, September 30, 1959

Name: Tornadoes in Virginia, September 30, 1959
Start: 1959-09-30T15:00
End: 1959-09-30T16:45
Location: Virginia

September 30, 1959 · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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The toll

Deaths: 12
Injuries: 13
Property damage: $525,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Greene

When: September 30, 3:00 PM CST
Where: Greene County
Rating: F3
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 9 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 38.300, -78.430

Tornado, Albemarle

When: September 30, 3:30 PM CST
Where: Albemarle County
Rating: F3
Path length: 0.8 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Deaths: 11 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 4 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 38.050, -78.620

Tornado, Fluvanna

When: September 30, 4:45 PM CST
Where: Fluvanna County
Rating: F3
Path length: 6.5 mi
Path width: 880 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 37.870, -78.300

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Tornado, Greene	1959-09-30				Direct

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Tornado in South Carolina, September 30, 1959$3,000 · F1 · 1 event

Every storm in Virginia in 1959 Every state in 1959 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Virginia, 1959

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10150861, 10150862, 10150863.