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Three tornadoes swept through central and southeastern Virginia on Monday, injuring about 200 people and damaging dozens of homes and businesses. Earlier reports of fatalities from the storms were inaccurate, officials said. A total of three tornadoes touched down in the area. One in Suffolk, another in Colonial Heights, about 60 miles northwest near Richmond Virginia and the last near Lawrenceville, about 70 miles south of Richmond.

The city of Suffolk in the southeastern part of the state was hardest hit by the late afternoon storms. Around 140 homes were destroyed in the area and the majority of injuries occurred there. The twister even hit the 138-bed Sentara Obici Hospital, but officials said that the facility was still operational and accepting patients.

More than 3,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers were without service, most in scattered outages throughout the southeastern part of the state. Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine declared a statewide emergency to help coordinate the state's response to widespread damage from the storms.