Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2002, 3:03 PM EDT for Augusta County, Highland County, Virginia; Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2002, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Augusta County, VA, Highland County, VA, Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:16 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar Grove, WV | A tree was downed. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 3, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William, City of Fairfax, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Page, Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Page, Shenandoah | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, King George, Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford and 1 more | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Warren, City of Winchester | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Nelson | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Nelson | 113 min |
| Aug 3, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Harford | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Baltimore | 115 min |
| Aug 3, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Prince George's | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's | 82 min |
| Aug 3, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, City of Baltimore | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Mineral | 44 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.