Virginia storm reports for April 26, 2022

Name: NOAA storm reports, Virginia, April 26, 2022
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 11 hail reports, 21 wind reports and 1 tornado report in Virginia on April 26, 2022.

in Virginia; 33
Storm reports: About 50 miles from Lynchburg, VA; 1.5 in
Largest hail: About 37 miles from Richmond, VA; 83 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 48 miles from Lynchburg, VA; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; gust estimates from NOAA URMA; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on April 26, 2022 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot. Gust lines are estimates: the highest gust of the day in NOAA's hourly 2.5 km wind analysis (URMA), which fills in between weather stations. They aren't measurements at any building.

Reports by hour

Hail11, most at 2 PM

Wind21, most at 5 PM

Tornado1, most at 12 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
12:04 PM	EF1	About 48 miles from Lynchburg, VA	5.98 mi long, 75 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
12:11 PM	1.5 in	About 50 miles from Lynchburg, VA
12:18 PM	1.0 in	About 50 miles from Lynchburg, VA
12:42 PM	1.0 in	About 57 miles from Lynchburg, VA
1:44 PM	1.0 in	About 48 miles from Richmond, VA
2:15 PM	1.0 in	About 25 miles from Richmond, VA
2:25 PM	1.0 in	About 18 miles from Richmond, VA
2:43 PM	1.0 in	About 16 miles from Richmond, VA
2:45 PM	1.0 in	About 11 miles from Richmond, VA
2:55 PM	1.0 in	About 5 miles from Richmond, VA
3:00 PM	1.0 in	About 4 miles from Richmond, VA
5:08 PM	1.0 in	About 37 miles from Virginia Beach, VA

Time	Gust	Where
12:02 PM	75 mph	About 47 miles from Lynchburg, VA
12:11 PM	69 mph	About 50 miles from Lynchburg, VA
12:13 PM	58 mph	About 49 miles from Lynchburg, VA
12:42 PM	58 mph	About 57 miles from Lynchburg, VA
2:00 PM	58 mph	About 47 miles from Richmond, VA
2:08 PM	83 mph	About 37 miles from Richmond, VA
2:10 PM	58 mph	About 41 miles from Richmond, VA
2:15 PM	58 mph	About 34 miles from Richmond, VA
2:17 PM	58 mph	About 35 miles from Richmond, VA
2:40 PM	58 mph	About 23 miles from Richmond, VA
3:30 PM	58 mph	About 49 miles from Richmond, VA
3:40 PM	58 mph	About 20 miles from Richmond, VA

Show all 21 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
3:45 PM	58 mph	About 31 miles from Richmond, VA
4:48 PM	58 mph	About 52 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:00 PM	58 mph	About 35 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:00 PM	58 mph	About 36 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:06 PM	58 mph	About 30 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:10 PM	58 mph	About 33 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:18 PM	58 mph	About 52 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:31 PM	58 mph	About 13 miles from Virginia Beach, VA
5:32 PM	58 mph	About 11 miles from Virginia Beach, VA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Richmond, VA	1.0 in	None	0
Virginia Beach, VA	None	58 mph	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.