High Wind, Smyth
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Smyth forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 36.844, -81.537 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Virginia, January 13, 2000
High winds during the midday and afternoon of the 13th downed large trees, tree limbs, and power lines. These winds resulted in minor property damage to personal property in all counties.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 11 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $180,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.
High winds during the midday and afternoon of the 13th downed large trees, tree limbs, and power lines. These winds resulted in minor property damage to personal property in all counties. Downed power lines also started scattered brush fires.Winds gusted to 54 knots in Hot Springs in Bath County, 68 knots at the WFO Blacksburg in Montgomery County, and 57 knots in Pulaski in Pulaski County.High winds rolled over a mobile home in Mountain Lake in Giles County, destroying the mobile home. In Rockbridge County high winds tore the roof off of a house in Rockbridge Baths, downed a tree onto a truck in Lexington, downed power lines that started a fire in Lexington, destroying a garage and truck parked inside. In the town of of Buckingham in Buckingham County, high winds damaged the roof of a house.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
11 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Alleghany
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Alleghany forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.791, -80.000 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Bath
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bath forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 38.059, -79.741 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Bland
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bland forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.134, -81.130 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Buckingham
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Buckingham forecast zone
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.572, -78.529 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Giles
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Giles forecast zone
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.314, -80.704 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Grayson
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Grayson forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 36.657, -81.225 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Montgomery
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery forecast zone
- Measured
- 68 kt (78 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.174, -80.387 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Pulaski
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Pulaski forecast zone
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.098, -80.645 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Rockbridge
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Rockbridge forecast zone
- Property damage
- $90,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.774, -79.418 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wythe
- When
- January 13, 11:55 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wythe forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 36.917, -81.079 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5133130, 5133131, 5133132, 5133133, 5133134, 5133135, 5133136, 5133137, 5133138, 5133139, 5133140.