Strong Wind, Highland
- When
- February 25, 8:00 PM EST to February 26, 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Highland forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Strong Wind in Virginia, February 25 to 26, 2001
A strong cold front crossed the region during the late evening hours of the 25th and ushered in strong west to northwest winds. Winds of 25 to 35 MPH with gusts to 45 MPH were common during the overnight hours of the 26th, especially amongst higher terrain.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 LWX wrote it up.
A strong cold front crossed the region during the late evening hours of the 25th and ushered in strong west to northwest winds. Winds of 25 to 35 MPH with gusts to 45 MPH were common during the overnight hours of the 26th, especially amongst higher terrain.
What forecasters said that day
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 Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 25, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 700 PM EST SUN FEB 25 2001 UPDATE TO REMOVE WIND ADVSRY HEADLINE AND TOUCH UP FORECAST. WIND ADVSRY EXPIRED AT 7 PM THIS EVENING. WINDS AGAIN PICKING UP TO OUR WEST...GUSTS TO 30 TO 35 KTS AT CLARKSBURG AND PARKERSBURG WVA. BUT ANY INCRSE IN CURRNT WINDS SHOULD STAY BELO ADVSRY CRITERIA. CLDS WILL BE EXITING THIS EVENING..BUT WARM TMNPS IN ADVCNE OF COLD FRONT WHICH IS STILL WELL TO OUR WEST. LATEST RUC HAS WINDS SHFTNG TO NW AND COLDR DRIER AIR COMING THRU BETWEEN 6 AND 9Z. ANYWAY WILL WORD FIRST PERIOD FORECAST FOR WARM TMPS BEFORE MIDNIGHT...THEN COOLING OFF. TMPS STILL NOT COLD BEHND FRONT AND TMPS MON SHULD REBOUND BACK INTO THE UPPER 40S AND LOW 50S...AT OR JUST ABV NORMLS FOR LATE FEB. STRONG FCSTID = 78 DCA 40 53 35 50 / 10 0 0 10 BWI 40 53 35 50 / 10 0 0 10 MRB 36 50 29 48 / 10 0 0 10 IAD 35 51 28 48 / 10 0 0 10 CHO 38 53 32 50 / 10 0 0 10 HGR 35 48 27 46 / 10 0 0 10 NHK 40 53 32 50 / 10 0 0 10 .LWX... DC...NONE. MD...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE.
Event by event
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Strong Wind
- Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Colorado, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in New York, February 25 to 26, 2001
- Blizzard in Iowa, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Missouri, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 25, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Wisconsin, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, February 25, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, February 2001
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: 5233553.