Tornado, Loudoun
- When
- July 19, 2:50 PM EST to 2:51 PM EST
- Where
- Loudoun County, Sterling/Ne Portion
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 39.070, -77.350
Tornado in Virginia, July 19, 1996
A weak tornado, captured on videotape along the Potomac River, and assumed to originate in Seneca Creek State Park (Montgomery Co MD) 4 miles south of Dawsonville, crossed the Potomac River into extreme eastern Loudoun Co before dissipating just southeast of the Lowes Island Golf Club. One tree was uprooted, and several others damaged, along the short track.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
A weak tornado, captured on videotape along the Potomac River, and assumed to originate in Seneca Creek State Park (Montgomery Co MD) 4 miles south of Dawsonville, crossed the Potomac River into extreme eastern Loudoun Co before dissipating just southeast of the Lowes Island Golf Club. One tree was uprooted, and several others damaged, along the short track.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
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- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 19 to 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1996Warnings in Virginia, July 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: 5568217.