Tornado, Scott
- When
- April 13, 4:11 PM EST to 4:15 PM EST
- Where
- Scott County, Weber City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -82.570
Tornado in Virginia, April 13, 1996
A tornado was reported to have touched down in Weber City collapsing a metal building, overturning six concrete picnic tables. Several 20-25 foot trees 8-10 inches in diameter were smapped off 3 feet from the base.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A tornado was reported to have touched down in Weber City collapsing a metal building, overturning six concrete picnic tables. Several 20-25 foot trees 8-10 inches in diameter were smapped off 3 feet from the base. Over 180 people were without power for 3 hours.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:10 UTC.
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
- Tornado in Texas, April 13, 1996
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 13, 1996
- High Wind in Texas, April 13 to 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 13, 1996
- Flooding in New York, April 13 to 15, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, April 13 to 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, April 13, 1996
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1996Warnings in Virginia, April 1996
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: 5545118.