Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 10, 2001

Name: Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 10, 2001
Start: 2001-06-10T16:00
End: 2001-06-10T16:00
Location: Virginia

June 10, 2001 · NWS RNK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Lightning struck a mobile home, starting a fire that destroyed the home and its contents.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
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 RNK wrote it up.

Lightning struck a mobile home, starting a fire that destroyed the home and its contents.

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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 1:18 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 1:18 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
218 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2001

MAIN FORECAST WORDING FOR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS IS SUMMER RETURNS.
THIS AFTN...STABLE AIR IN PLACE PER 17Z MSAS OVER MOST OF THE
FA...WITH AN INSTABILITY AXIS OVER THE MTNS OF WRN NC. REGIONAL
RADAR COMPOSITE SHOWS SOME CONVECTION FIRING IN UPSTATE SC. NOT AS
MUCH CU TODAY AS YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME. QUESTION TONIGHT...IS
ETA/AVN RIGHT IN POPS OVER THE WEST. WV LOOP SHOWS S/W DIVING TWD MO
AND IS PROGGED TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EAST OVERNIGHT. DESPITE
THIS...MODELS BRING UNSTABLE AIR NWD...AS LOW LEVEL WINDS VEER TO
THE SOUTHWEST BY 12Z. AFTER COORD WITH GSP...WILL LEAVE POPS OUT FOR
NRN MTNS...ALTHOUGH WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED THAT AN ISOLATED SHRA
DEVELOPS OVER THE HIGH COUNTRY. EVENING SHIFT CAN NOWCAST IT OR
UPDATE IF NEED BE.

MON...MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AT 5H BRINGING "ALLISON" INTO
GA/AL VICINITY THROUGH TUESDAY. AVN I BELIEVE IS OVERBLOWING PCPN
CHANCES IN THE EAST MONDAY...WITH WESTERLY FLOW AND WARMING ALOFT
AND NO SENSIBLE TRIGGER...WILL NOT PUT POPS IN. AS "ALLISON" GETS
CLOSER...WEST TO NW LOW LVL FLOW WILL INCREASE...AND GOOD SUBSIDENCE
ON NRN FRINGE SHOULD LEAD TO HOT TEMPS EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE
TUESDAY. SO AM GOING WITH MAV TEMPS OF LOW 90S IN THIS AREA.

AS FAR AS WHEN PCPN ARRIVES...THINK AVN MAY BE TOO FAST GIVEN
STRENGTH OF RIDGE IN AREA...AND NOT MUCH STEERING ALOFT. WILL HOLD
OFF ON CHANCES AND PLACE THEM IN THE WEST WEDNESDAY...AS I BELIEVE
BEST DYNAMICS AND MOISTURE WILL BE CONFINED TO THE MTNS. WILL KEEP A
CHANCE AROUND THURSDAY AND FRIDAY IN THE WEST. LOOKS LIKE BEST LIFT
AND DYNAMICS WILL BE WELL NORTH BY SATURDAY TO TO KEEP THINGS DRY
WITH FRONT SLOWING DOWN OVER THE OH VLY. IF ANYTHING...WIDELY SCTD
TSRA...BUT NOT ENOUGH TO PUT IN ZONES THAT FAR OUT. STILL GOING TO
BE WARM TO HOT AND HUMID. DEPENDING ON EXTENT OF CLD COVER WED FROM
ALLISON...TEMPS MAY NOT GET OUT OF THE 70S IN THE MTNS...AND WILL
CUT HIGHS BACK A BIT.

THANKS FOR THE COORD GSP.

PRELIM NUMBERS
FCSTID = 5
ROA   59  86  64  90 /   0  10   0   0
LYH   58  86  62  91 /   0  10   0   0
DAN   63  88  65  92 /  10  10   0   0
BLF   58  80  61  83 /   0   0   0   0
LWB   50  79  56  84 /   0   0   0   0
BCB   54  83  59  86 /   0   0   0   0
TNB   56  79  61  81 /  10   0   0   0

.RNK...
NC...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

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WHP

The radar

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Event by event

1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

Lightning, Franklin

When: June 10, 4:00 PM EST
Where: Franklin County, Snow Creek
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 36.992, -79.881 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Lightning: A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Virginia in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Virginia, June 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: 5252124.