Tornado, Powhatan
- When
- July 26, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Powhatan County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -78.000
Tornado in Virginia, July 26, 1987
1 tornado, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 26, 1987
- Tornado in Wisconsin, July 26, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 26, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in New Jersey, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 26, 1987
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 26, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, July 26, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 26, 1987
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1987Warnings in Virginia, July 1987
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: 10152036.