Virginia

Storms in Virginia in 2009

1,500 events in 217 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Virginia in 2009, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Virginia in 2009 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
1,500
Deaths
3
Injuries
4
Damage
$55 million
Episodes
217

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind47200$455,000
Hail38601$3.4 million
Flash Flood13801$1.4 million
Winter Storm11900
Winter Weather9900
High Wind7400$1.0 million
Heavy Snow6410$3.7 million
Heavy Rain5400
Flood2400$242,000
Coastal Flood2400$43 million
Tornado1711$1.7 million
Ice Storm1200$48,000
Funnel Cloud800
Lightning600
Strong Wind201$2,000
Rip Current110

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

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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.