Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT for 39 counties in North Carolina; 57 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties
Alamance County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Nelson | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Craig | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 8:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Appomattox | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 28 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.