Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Kilmarnock, VA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is N, VA, 21 miles south of Kilmarnock at 4 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 70°F; January is the coolest, at 47°F and 29°F. July is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 51.9 inches over 80 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 56% of the year's precipitation (28.9 of 51.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 60 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (23); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 5.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 16 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 77 nights a year. Snowfall averages 8.5 inches a year, most of it in January. That 51.9 inches is more than at 102 of the 109 Virginia stations used on this site (94%). Lancaster, 9 miles west, has its own station (W Pt 2 NW, VA): 48.1 inches a year, 3.8 less than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lewisetta, VA, 19 miles north, averaged 83°F in July and 40°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Windmill Point tide gauge, 9 miles from Kilmarnock, has risen 2.55 ± 0.20 inches per decade from 1982 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 25.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 138 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 120 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Kilmarnock: 72 thunderstorm wind reports, 28 heavy rain events, 17 flash floods and 3 floods. They killed 0 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $2.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on April 6, 2017. July has had the most flash floods, 8 of 17. Of the 364 Virginia cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 153 have had fewer than Kilmarnock.

Flood insurance policyholders in Kilmarnock's ZIP code 22482 have filed 84 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1998, and were paid $926,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Isabel in 2003: 34 claims (40% of all) and $482,000, then Tropical Storm Ernesto in 2006 with 29. 86% 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, 122 have fewer than Kilmarnock.