Flash Flood, Lee
- When
- July 29, 2:00 AM EST to 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, Countywide
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.705, -83.128 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Virginia, July 29, 2001
5-6 inches of water in a home in Stone Creek. Mudslides and roads underwater at Jonesville, Deep Springs, Pennington Gap and Dryden.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
5-6 inches of water in a home in Stone Creek. Mudslides and roads underwater at Jonesville, Deep Springs, Pennington Gap and Dryden.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 7:38 PM EST, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:38 PM EST, 6 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 838 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2001 18Z MESO-ETA SHOWS WELL DEFINED SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT. DEEP MOISTURE...LIFT AND INSTABILITY JUSTIFY KEEPING POPS HIGH. WILL LEAVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING. NO CHANGES NEEDED TO CURRENT FORECAST. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR NORTHEAST TENNESSEE. VA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. AUSTIN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Illinois, July 29 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 29, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 29, 2001
- Heat and Lightning Strike in Mississippi, July 29, 2001
- Volcanic Ash in Puerto Rico, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Virginia, July 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 29, 2001
- Volcanic Ash in U.S. Virgin Islands, July 29, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, July 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: 5261914.