1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Dec 23, 8:54 PM EST, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 854 PM EST SUN DEC 23 2001 COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY WORKING INTO FAR WESTERN VA. AREA OF RAIN CONTINUES TO BLOSSOM ACROSS WESTERN VA...ALONG THE FRONT...IN LIGHT OF THE INCREASING DYNAMICS PER THE SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE (DPVA) AS WELL AS RRQ FORCING FROM THE 120KT-PLUS JET STREAK. WILL BE UPDATING THE FCST TO DELAY THE ONSET OF RAINFALL FOR MOST AREAS. AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW AT LOW LEVELS HAS REMAINED EASTERLY UP TO THIS POINT...KEEPING THE SUB-850 MB LAYER DRY PER THE 00Z KWAL SOUNDING. AS THE FRONT DRAWS NEAR SO WILL THE HEART OF THE WARM CONVEYOR BELT OR DEEPER ISENTROPIC MOISTENING...PER 295-315K ANALYSIS. INCREASING S/SSW FLOW OF THE SURFACE (TO 50-55KTS PER LATEST VAD WIND PROFILE) WILL QUICKLY POOL IN MOISTURE OVERNIGHT... AS IT IS OUT WEST CURRENTLY. SO IT STILL LOOKS LIKE ALL AREAS WILL BE GETTING WET...JUST LATER THAN PREVIOUS EXPECTATIONS. FURTHERMORE...GIVEN THE NARROWNESS OF THE DYNAMICAL SUPPORT (COLDER CLOUD TOPS) ALONG THE FRONT...CONTINUE TO EXPECT A RELATIVELY SHORT-LIVED EVENT WITH CLEARING QUICKLY MOVING IN LATE BEHIND THE FRONT OVER THE WESTERN ZONES. DO NOT EXPECT MUCH CHANGE TO THE MIN TEMP FORECAST TONIGHT...AS LOW TEMPS WILL COME LATE AND AS A RESULT OF THE POST-FRONTAL CAA. MARINE...LITTLE IF ANY CHANGES EXPECTED. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SCA IN ALL ZONES. COASTAL BUOYS SHOW WIND SPEEDS INCREASING TO 25-30 KTS...WHICH IS FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE GIVEN THE STABILITY/INVERSION IN PLACE AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. .AKQ... MD...SCA...ATLC COASTAL WATERS. NC...SCA...ATLC COASTAL WATERS N OF CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT. VA...SCA...ATLC COASTAL WATERS AND CHES BAY S OF SMITH PT. HURLEY
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds with the passage of a cold front turned camper upside down and ripped siding off of house in the Smithfield area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, December 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: 5274551.