Tropical Storm — Norfolk, Virginia

2025-08-21 · Norfolk, Virginia

Event narrative

Although Hurricane Erin passed well offshore on August 21, the wind field was so large that northerly winds gusted to 30 to 40 miles per hour from 6 AM EST until 3 PM EST. The peak gust was 40 mph around 9 AM EST at the Norfolk International Airport ASOS.

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 1291149. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.