Tornado, Halifax
- When
- October 9, 3:40 PM EST to 3:45 PM EST
- Where
- Halifax County, 8 mi SE of Scottsburg
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 36.670, -78.680
Tornado in Virginia, October 9, 1996
5 miles southeast of Scottsburg during the afternoon hours on the 9th. The tornado traveled approximately 1/2 mile before dissipating.
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
- $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 RNK wrote it up.
A tornado formed 7.5 miles southeast of Scottsburg during the afternoon hours on the 9th. The tornado traveled approximately 1/2 mile before dissipating. The tornado knocked a large tree onto a barn, destroying the barn, a truck, a four-wheeler, and a tractor, snapped off or uprooted several trees, destroyed dog kennels, and ripped roofs off of barns and homes.
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:40 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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More
Every storm in Virginia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1996Warnings in Virginia, October 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: 5573734.