Tornado, Virginia Beach (C)
- When
- August 3, 6:47 PM EST
- Where
- Virginia Beach (C) County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -75.980
Tornado in Virginia, August 3, 1988
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
- $250,000
- 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 3, 1988
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, August 3, 1988
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 3, 1988
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, August 3, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 3, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 3, 1988
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 3, 1988
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1988Every state in 1988This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1988Warnings in Virginia, August 1988
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: 10150007.