Tornado, Pittsylvania
- When
- June 10, 8:45 AM EST to 8:48 AM EST
- Where
- Pittsylvania County, Renan to 1 mi NNE of Renan
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.1 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $90,000
- Coordinates
- 36.970, -79.200
Tornado in Virginia, June 10, 1996
5 miles northeast before dissipating 2 miles south of Axton at 0728 EST. This F1 tornado damaged 3 houses, tore the roof off another house, destroyed 6 outbuildings, damaged a barn and a shed, uprooted and snapped off numerous trees and knocked down power lines and power poles.
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
- $90,000
- 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 RNK wrote it up.
Thunderstorms during the morning hours on the 10th produced two tornadoes, damaging winds and flash flooding.A tornado developed 3 miles south-southwest of Axton at 0722 EST and traveled 1.5 miles northeast before dissipating 2 miles south of Axton at 0728 EST. This F1 tornado damaged 3 houses, tore the roof off another house, destroyed 6 outbuildings, damaged a barn and a shed, uprooted and snapped off numerous trees and knocked down power lines and power poles. A second tornado developed 0.5 miles northwest of Renan at 0845 EST and traveled 1.1 miles northeast before dissipating 1 mile north-northeast of Renan at 0848 EST. This F1 tornado broke out windows and tore the roof off a house, damaged the roof of another house, severely damaged one vehicle, damaged two other vehicles, damaged an abandoned school, tore the roof off of two out buildings knocked down power lines and power poles, damaged antennas, and snapped off or uprooted numerous trees.Thunderstorm winds broke off tree limbs and uprooted trees in portions of Chatham. Tree limbs damaged gutters and shingles of a few homes.
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:44 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
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, June 10 to 11, 1996
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 10, 1996
- Tornado in Virginia, June 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 10, 1996
- Dust Devil in Arizona, June 10, 1996
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, June 10 to 11, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 10, 1996
- Hail in New York, June 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, June 10, 1996
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1996Warnings in Virginia, June 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: 5550913.