Tornado, Chesapeake (C)
- When
- July 24, 12:15 PM EST to 12:16 PM EST
- Where
- Chesapeake (C) County, 2 mi N of Chesapeake
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $400,000
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -76.270
Tornadoes in Virginia, July 24, 1997
3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- $900,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:15 UTC.
Event by event
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Norfolk (C)
- When
- July 24, 12:16 PM EST to 12:17 PM EST
- Where
- Norfolk (C) County, 1 mi S of Norfolk
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $400,000
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -76.270
Tornado path started in south Norfolk just south of Poindexter Street on Guerriere Street. The tornado then continued north-northeast into the Berkley Avenue Industrial Park before crossing into the southern portion of Norfolk and lifting after causing damage on Roseclair and Joyce Streets. One business, a car wash was destroyed, and six sustained major roof damage. One home was damaged in Chesapeake, with damage to a couple of additional structures in the Roseclair and Joyce Street areas of Norfolk.
Tornado, Norfolk (C)
- When
- July 24, 12:20 PM EST
- Where
- Norfolk (C) County, Norfolk
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -76.270
Tornado first touched down west of Route 460 between Liberty Street and Indian River Road. The tornado tracked north-northeast across Indian River Road and across the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River before lifting east of Harbor Park and south of I-264. Minor damage to several structures, mostly residential.
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 Colorado, July 24, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in New Jersey, July 24 to 25, 1997
- Flood in Alaska, July 24 to 31, 1997
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind and Waterspout in North Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, July 24 to 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 24, 1997
- Heavy Rain in New York, July 24 to 25, 1997
- High Wind in North Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, July 24, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, July 24, 1997
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 1997Warnings in Virginia, July 1997
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: 5617856, 5617858, 5617857.