Tornado, Gloucester
- When
- July 15, 6:30 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Gloucester County, Tidemill to Maryus
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 37.270, -76.480
Tornado in Virginia, July 15, 1996
Tornado first touched down in the Tidemill area near the intersection of Route 17 and Route 641. The tornado then moved east-northeast along or just north of Route 216 (Guinea Road), tracked east through the Perrin area and just south of the Maryus area, then exited into the Chesapeake Bay just north of Hog Island.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AKQ wrote it up.
Tornado first touched down in the Tidemill area near the intersection of Route 17 and Route 641. The tornado then moved east-northeast along or just north of Route 216 (Guinea Road), tracked east through the Perrin area and just south of the Maryus area, then exited into the Chesapeake Bay just north of Hog Island. Most significant damage occurred from near Joseph Lewis Road in the Tidemill area eastward along Tidemill Road then along Guinea Road to just west of the Bena area. Along this path, numerous large trees were sheared-off, uprooted, or blown down, several homes received roof and siding damage, and a couple of sheds were overturned.
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:28 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.
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The same day elsewhere
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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: 5583403.