1 lightning, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 8:50 AM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 950 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001 CUR SIT...THE MAIN FRNT IS ANCHORED N IN SRN PA WHILE A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRES IS ELONGATED IN THE VA AND NC PIEDMONTS. KAKQ 88-D SHOWS SCT TSRA XTND FM JST N OF RIC TO SBY. VIS SAT PIX SHOW MORE SUN THAN CLDS ACRS THE FA THIS AM...WHILE WV INDICATES MD LVL DRYNG IN SERN VA AND ERN NC. MORNG SNDNGS CONCUR W THIS W SOME DRYER AIR AT MD LVLS AT WAL BUT FARTHER W SNDNGS ARE VERY MOIST THRU H55. PWS ARE BTWN 1.75 TO 2...AND AVG STM MOTION IS ARND 6 KTS. THUS...XPCT TO SEE SOME LOCALIZED HVY RAINFALL WITH SLOW MVNG TSTM. OTHER SVR POTENTIAL IS SLIM...AS WET BULB ZEROS ARE BTWN 12 AND 13 KFT AND WND SHEAR IS WEAK. AS FOR UPDATE...FRNT WL MOVE VERY LITTLE TODAY SO WITH BROAD PVA CONT TO RIDE ACRS THE FA...XPCT TO SE SH AND TSTM DEV THIS AFT. AS FOR TEMPS...WITH DECENT SUN THIS MORN THINK HI/S WILL PREDOMINANTLY BE IN THE UPR 80S TO NR 90. DID MODIFY TEMPS UP TO NR 90 IN MIDDLE NECK AND VA DELMARVA AS THEY SHUD SEE DECENT SUN AT LEAST INTO EARLY AFT AND ACC IS ALREADY AT 84. ALSO MODIFIED CLD COVER TO GO PSUN IN E. CWF...CUR FCST LOOKS REASONABLE SO ONLY MADE MINOR MODIFICATIONS. FCSTID = 15 .AKQ... MD...NONE. NC...NONE. VA...NONE. INNES
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
1 lightning, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Woman struck by lightning while on boat.
Weak tornado (F0) damaged a couple of mobile homes and produced minor damage at a townhouse complex near Fort Eustis.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Norfolk (C) | 2001-08-11 | 39 | Female | Boat | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 2001Warnings in Virginia, August 2001
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: 5267010, 5267079.