Tornado, Rappahannock
- When
- June 19, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rappahannock County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.670, -78.000
Tornado and Hail in Virginia, June 19, 1978
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Prince William
- When
- June 19, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Prince William County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.650, -77.250
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 1978
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 19, 1978
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 19, 1978
- Hail in Pennsylvania, June 19, 1978
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, June 19, 1978
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 19, 1978
- Hail in New Jersey, June 19, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, June 19, 1978
- Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 1978
- Tornado in Arkansas, June 19, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 19, 1978
More
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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: 10152156, 10152157.