Tornado, Mathews
- When
- March 30, 4:15 PM EST
- Where
- Mathews County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.330, -76.320
Tornado and Hail in Virginia, March 30, 1989
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
- $250,000
- 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
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Suffolk (C)
- When
- March 30, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Suffolk (C) County
- Coordinates
- 36.730, -76.580
Hail, Hampton (C)
- When
- March 30, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Hampton (C) County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.020, -76.350
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.
- 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
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, March 30, 1989
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, March 30, 1989
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Georgia, March 30, 1989
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 30, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 30, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 30, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, March 30, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, March 30, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 30, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Maine, March 30, 1989
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1989Every state in 1989This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1989Warnings in Virginia, March 1989
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: 10150050, 10150051, 10150052.