1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 26, 2:55 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 355 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2001 TON: AREA OF SHRA/TSTMS GETTING READY TO ENTER THE N AND W PARTS OF MY CWA. HEALTHY LOOKING SHTWV ON WV WILL ENHANCE PRECIP...ALSO W/ NR UNIFORM SW FLOW UP THROUGH MID LEVELS...GOOD CHC OF TRAINING...ESP ALNG FNT. HENCE RAIN HVY AT TIMES IN ZONES TONIGHT. LIKE SLWR TIMING OF AVN...AS IT SEEMS TO HAVE DONE BEST JOB OF HNDLG FNT SO FAR. EVEN W/ SLOWER TIMING OF AVN...STILL COULD GET SOME BREAKS IN THE CLDS N PART OF CWA BY AM. FRI: BRISK NE FLOW PLUS PT CLDY TO BKN SKIES SHLD KEEP TEMPS GNLY IN 70S ACRS CWA...ESP NEAR THE COAST AND BAY. FRNT & PRECIP SHLD LNGR ACRS CSTL WTRS/NE NC THRU ERLY AFT...WAS SLGTLY MORE PESSIMISTIC IN ZONES. GOOD CLRNG ACRS N PART OF CWA AS HIGH BLDS FRM NEW ENG. FRI NGT: ALL AREA CLR OUT...NE TO E WINDS DIE DOWN...SHLD BE FAIRLY COOL FOR THIS TIME OF YR...UPR 50S PIED TO MID 60S SE CWA. SAT: CLD FNT STARTS TO WORK WAY BACK AS WRM FNT...BOTH ETA AND AVN CREATE QUITE A BIT OF CLDS/PRECIP W/IT SAT AFT...RESTRICTED THIS TO 30% POPS S & W PART OF CWA (IE WAS A BIT MORE OPTIMISTIC) XTND: FRNT SLWLY LIFTS N SUN & SUN NGT AS WARM FNT ACRS CWA...FNLY RCHNG COST MON. GOOD BE ANTHR GOOD SHOT AT SOAKING RAIN THRU SUN NGT...ESP IF AVN IS RIGHT ABOUT HEALTHY WAVE DVLPG ALNG FNT SUN NGT..W/ DECENT 500 VORT & PVA. PRECIP LINGERS INTO MON AM...THEN GRDL CLRNG AS WK HIGH BLDS IN. FOR REST OF XTND...UPR RIDGE GRADUALLY BLDS IN...ONCE NRLY FLOW DONE TUE...WL HAVE DECENT WARM UP...BACK IN 90S AND HUMIDITY BY MID OF NEXT WK. MARINE...SCA COAST N OF CAPE CHLS LIGHT & BAY FOR BRISK SW WINDS AND SEAS IN THE WATERS. ADVERTISING SCA FOR THE REMAINDER OF WATERS (XCPT SND) FOR FRI W/ BRISK NE WIND BEHIND FRONT. FCSTID = 33 SBY 64 76 59 77 / 70 20 0 20 OXB 66 74 60 76 / 70 20 0 20 ECG 73 78 66 77 / 70 60 30 30 ORF 71 74 65 75 / 70 40 20 30 PHF 71 74 65 75 / 70 40 20 30 AKQ 69 76 63 75 / 70 40 20 30 RIC 66 78 61 76 / 70 30 10 30 FVX 66 78 61 76 / 70 30 10 30 .AKQ... MD...SCA ATLC COASTAL WATERS NC...NONE. VA...SCA ATLC COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO CAPE CHARLES LIGHT AND CHES BAY MALOIT
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:30 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Two Boy Scouts were injured by lightning while at a campsite of the National Scout Jamboree.
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, July 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: 5262136.