NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Berryville, VA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
25 tropical systems have passed within 75 miles of Berryville, Virginia since 1851, 3 of them at hurricane strength; the most recent was Sandy in 2012. Since 1950, 76 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 3
- Tropical storms
- 22
- Tornadoes
- 76
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Berryville
The strongest storm to pass near Berryville was an unnamed storm in 1878, a Category 1 hurricane with 92 mph winds when its centre passed 43 miles away. The closest pass by a hurricane was an unnamed storm in 1893, whose centre came within 3 miles. The record near Berryville begins with an unnamed storm in 1876; the most recent system was Sandy in 2012, a tropical storm 66 miles away. The busiest decade was the 1890s, with 5 systems, one of them at hurricane strength. Of the 25 systems, 3 have come since 2000. Berryville has more hurricanes within 75 miles than 33% of the 364 Virginia cities on this site. The highest rating among the 76 tornadoes within 25 miles is F2, reached 10 times; the most recent, on September 17, 2004, came within 24 miles. Of the 76, 4 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 39 have come since 2000. June has had the most tornadoes, 21. The most recent tornado was on August 8, 2024. Berryville has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 77% of the 364 Virginia cities. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 71 times since 1960, with stones up to 3.5 inches. Berryville has more hail reports within 10 miles than 70% of the 364 Virginia cities.
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Tropical storms and hurricanes near Berryville
| Year | Storm | Closest | Strength when closest | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | SandyOct 30 | 66 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 3 |
| 2006 | ErnestoSep 2 | 68 mi | Tropical storm (45 mph) | Category 1 |
| 2003 | IsabelSep 19 | 61 mi | Tropical storm (56 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1979 | DavidSep 6 | 24 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1955 | DianeAug 18 | 14 mi | Tropical storm (45 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1955 | ConnieAug 13 | 66 mi | Tropical storm (55 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1954 | HazelOct 15 | 27 mi | Category 1 (84 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1952 | AbleSep 1 | 21 mi | Tropical storm (55 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1949 | Unnamed 1949 stormAug 29 | 9 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1943 | Unnamed 1943 stormOct 1 | 66 mi | Tropical storm (43 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1934 | Unnamed 1934 stormJun 19 | 12 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1933 | Unnamed 1933 stormAug 24 | 44 mi | Tropical storm (61 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1929 | Unnamed 1929 stormOct 2 | 69 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1928 | Unnamed 1928 stormSep 20 | 7 mi | Tropical storm (49 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1915 | Unnamed 1915 stormAug 4 | 33 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1899 | Unnamed 1899 stormNov 1 | 75 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1896 | Unnamed 1896 stormSep 30 | 31 mi | Tropical storm (70 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1893 | Unnamed 1893 stormOct 23 | 41 mi | Tropical storm (41 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1893 | Unnamed 1893 stormOct 14 | 3 mi | Category 1 (74 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1893 | Unnamed 1893 stormAug 29 | 27 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormAug 21 | 68 mi | Tropical storm (48 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1885 | Unnamed 1885 stormOct 13 | 2 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1878 | Unnamed 1878 stormOct 23 | 43 mi | Category 1 (92 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1878 | Unnamed 1878 stormSep 13 | 74 mi | Tropical storm (56 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1876 | Unnamed 1876 stormSep 18 | 20 mi | Tropical storm (64 mph) | Category 3 |
Strength is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, which is not the wind felt in Berryville: a hurricane's worst winds sit within a few dozen miles of its centre, and inland cities are usually past that.
Tornadoes within 25 miles of Berryville
By decade
- 2020s7
- 2010s7
- 2000s25
- 1990s22
- 1980s3
- 1970s6
- 1960s3
- 1950s3
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2004 | F2 | 15 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 6 |
| Sep 17, 2004 | F2 | 24 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 17, 2004 | F2 | 10 mi | 5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 17, 2004 | F2 | 24 mi | 13 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 19, 1996 | F2 | 20 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 16, 1989 | F2 | 12 mi | 9 mi | 0 / 3 |
| Jun 3, 1980 | F2 | 20 mi | 2.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 5, 1979 | F2 | 24 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 2 |
| Aug 4, 1975 | F2 | 6 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 13, 1961 | F2 | 16 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Aug 8, 2024 | EF1 | 8 mi | 4.76 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 3, 2021 | EF1 | 12 mi | 1.81 mi | 0 / 1 |
The strongest 12 of 76, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Berryville
The Storm Prediction Center has 71 hail reports within 10 miles of Berryville since 1960, made on 48 separate days. Of these, 46 were 1 inch across or larger, and 3 reached 2 inches. The largest, 3.5 inches, fell on April 23, 1999. The most recent report is from March 16, 2025. May and June have the most reports, 20 each.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Berryville
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Winchester 7 SE, VA, 8 miles west of Berryville at 680 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 63°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 21°F. September is the wettest at 4.4 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.2 inches; the year adds up to 39.9 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (21.9 of 39.9 inches); the other six months are drier. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 126 nights a year. That 39.9 inches is more than at 4 of the 109 Virginia stations used on this site (4%). Boyce, 7 miles southwest, has its own station (Mt Wx, VA): 46.5 inches a year, 6.6 more than here, and a July average high of 82°F against 87°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 42 | 21 | 2.5 | 6 |
| Feb | 45 | 23 | 2.2 | 5 |
| Mar | 53 | 29 | 3.4 | 7 |
| Apr | 66 | 38 | 3.2 | 7 |
| May | 74 | 49 | 3.9 | 8 |
| Jun | 83 | 58 | 4.0 | 8 |
| Jul | 87 | 63 | 3.8 | 7 |
| Aug | 86 | 61 | 3.7 | 6 |
| Sep | 79 | 54 | 4.4 | 6 |
| Oct | 67 | 41 | 3.1 | 5 |
| Nov | 56 | 32 | 2.9 | 5 |
| Dec | 46 | 25 | 2.8 | 5 |
| Year | 65 | 41 | 39.9 | 75 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Winchester 7 SE, VA (680 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Berryville
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 365 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Berryville: 295 thunderstorm wind reports, 61 floods, 7 flash floods and 2 lightning strikes. They killed 2 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $2.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on June 26, 1997. Of the 364 Virginia cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 30 have had fewer than Berryville.
May 3, 2025: thunderstorm wind 10 miles from the centre of Berryville — 1 killed, 1 injured, $10,000 damage.
May 16, 2014: flash flood 7 miles from the centre of Berryville — 1 killed, 1 injured, $5,000 damage.
July 28, 1997: thunderstorm wind 9 miles from the centre of Berryville — 1 injured, $100,000 damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Berryville's ZIP code 22611 have filed 15 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $267,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 60% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 183 Virginia cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 26 have fewer than Berryville.
Clarke County, which includes Berryville, has been named in 20 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1972, 13 of them major disasters (by incident: 6 hurricanes, 4 snowstorms, 3 floods, 3 severe storms). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on April 2, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Clarke County a Very Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Low for strong wind and heat waves; Very Low for hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, inland flooding and lightning. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $5.6 million a year, the 90th highest of 133 Virginia counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $3.0 million (53%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.
Cities near Berryville
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- Bluemont, VA8 mi
- Stephenson, VA8 mi
- Clear Brook, VA9 mi
- Charles Town, WV11 mi
- Round Hill, VA11 mi
- Ranson, WV12 mi
- Bunker Hill, WV12 mi
- Winchester, VA12 mi
- Harpers Ferry, WV13 mi
- Stephens City, VA13 mi
- Purcellville, VA13 mi
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