Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 214
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT for 14 counties in North Carolina; 27 counties in Virginia; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 44 min |
| May 2, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 46 min |
| May 2, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 50 min |
| May 2, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Franklin | 39 min |
| May 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 33 min |
| May 2, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 49 min |
| May 2, 6:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bland | 3 hr |
| May 2, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 2, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 45 min |
| May 2, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd | 26 min |
| May 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 21 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| May 1, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Granville and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Wise and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath and 45 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 50 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Marshall and 11 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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.