Tropical Storm — Virginia Beach, Virginia

2025-08-21 · Virginia Beach, Virginia

Event narrative

Although Hurricane Erin passed well offshore on August 21, the wind field was so large that northerly winds gusted to 35 to 45 miles per hour from 2 AM EST through 3 PM EST. The peak gust was 44 mph at 4:56 AM EST at the Virginia Beach ASOS and 43 mph at the Cape Henry NOS site around 5 AM EST.

Wider weather episode

The center of Hurricane Erin stayed several hundred miles east of the Middle Atlantic coast on August 21, 2025. However, due the extremely large size of the cyclone with an expansive wind field, tropical storm force gusts occurred over the Atlantic, Chesapeake Bay, and far eastern and southeastern Virginia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1291148. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.