Hail, Floyd
- When
- March 16, 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Floyd County, Copper Hill
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.080, -80.130
Hail in Virginia, March 16, 1996
Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off roofs 5 miles south of Christiansburg.
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
- 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 RNK wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms during the evening hours on the 16th produced hail up to dime size and damaging winds.Dime size hail covered the ground 5 miles south of Christiansburg.Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off roofs 5 miles south of Christiansburg.
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 16 to 17, 1996
- Tornado in Alabama, March 16, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Hail in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
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: 5547863.