Hail, Buckingham
- When
- April 2, 1:35 PM CST
- Where
- Buckingham County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.570, -78.530
Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, April 2, 1990
13 hail, 3 tornado, 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $2.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 16
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
13 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Buckingham
- When
- April 2, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Buckingham County
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.570, -78.530
Tornado, Pittsylvania
- When
- April 2, 4:30 PM EDT
- Where
- Pittsylvania County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -79.370
Hail, Prince Edward
- When
- April 2, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Prince Edward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.300, -78.570
Hail, Powhatan
- When
- April 2, 3:01 PM CST
- Where
- Powhatan County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.550, -76.930
Hail, Goochland
- When
- April 2, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Goochland County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.720, -77.930
Hail, Cumberland
- When
- April 2, 3:17 PM CST
- Where
- Cumberland County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -78.250
Hail, Amelia
- When
- April 2, 3:24 PM CST
- Where
- Amelia County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.330, -77.930
Hail, Cumberland
- When
- April 2, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cumberland County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.670, -78.100
Hail, Goochland
- When
- April 2, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Goochland County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.720, -77.930
Hail, Chesterfield
- When
- April 2, 4:48 PM CST
- Where
- Chesterfield County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.380, -77.580
Tornado, Chesterfield
- When
- April 2, 6:53 PM EDT
- Where
- Chesterfield County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 37.350, -77.450
Hail, Henrico
- When
- April 2, 5:34 PM CST
- Where
- Henrico County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.370, -77.450
Hail, Henrico
- When
- April 2, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Henrico County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.370, -77.450
Hail, Chesterfield
- When
- April 2, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Chesterfield County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.520, -77.570
Tornado, Brunswick
- When
- April 2, 8:20 PM EST
- Where
- Brunswick County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.720, -77.780
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
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: 10146128, 10146129, 10146345, 10146130, 10146131, 10146132, 10146133, 10146134, 10146135, 10146344, 10146346, 10146348, 10146347, 10146349, 10146350, 10146351.