Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 298
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2002, 10:00 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2002, 10:00 AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 110 counties
Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Albemarle County, VA, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henry County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:02 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
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Washington | 45 min |
| May 13, 10:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson | 40 min |
| May 13, 10:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 37 min |
| May 13, 10:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 62 min |
| May 13, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 64 min |
| May 13, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 63 min |
| May 13, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Wythe | 59 min |
| May 13, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 47 min |
| May 13, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 35 min |
| May 13, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 13, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 57 min |
| May 13, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 50 min |
| May 13, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 65 min |
| May 13, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 56 min |
| May 13, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Campbell | 22 min |
| May 13, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Campbell | 19 min |
| May 13, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk | 54 min |
| May 13, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham | 39 min |
| May 13, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 29 min |
| May 13, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 33 min |
| May 13, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 48 min |
| May 13, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Goochland | 42 min |
| May 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 40 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 39 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scotland | 5 hr |
| May 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Caswell and 39 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lake | 4 hr |
| May 13, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 18 more | 4 hr |
| May 13, 5:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 63 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 21 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 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.