Tornado, Clarke
- When
- August 2, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.030, -78.120
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 2, 1986
2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Clarke
- When
- August 2, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.030, -78.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- August 2, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Coordinates
- 38.420, -78.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Goochland
- When
- August 2, 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Goochland County
- Coordinates
- 37.670, -78.050
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 2, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, August 2, 1986
- Hail in Wyoming, August 2, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, August 2, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 2, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 2, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 2, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 2, 1986
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1986Warnings in Virginia, August 1986
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: 10153395, 10153396, 10153397, 10153398.