Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 394
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2002, 2:30 PM EDT for 13 counties in Maryland; 70 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2002, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Fredericksburg, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greene County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henry County, VA, King George County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Madison County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA, Warren County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Morgan County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Orange | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William, Stafford | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles, Prince George's | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Howard, Prince George's | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 78 min |
| Jun 6, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Frederick | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Greene, Madison, Orange | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Carroll | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, Pittsylvania | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Orange | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Nottoway | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calvert, Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's, Somerset and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maryland, 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.