Heavy Rain, Rockingham
- When
- June 13, 12:00 PM EST to 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Rockingham County, West Portion
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.512, -78.876 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Virginia, June 13, 2001
A thunderstorm with heavy rainfall remained over the western portion of Rockingham County between 100 and 330 PM. A bit of water covered area roads after the downpour.
Where it happened
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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 thunderstorm with heavy rainfall remained over the western portion of Rockingham County between 100 and 330 PM. A bit of water covered area roads after the downpour. On Dundore Mountain 2.13 inches of rain fell in one hour and by the end of the storm 3.29 inches had accumulated. A total of 2.00 inches was reported at Briery Branch.
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 Jun 13, 8:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 8:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 945 AM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 WILL DO SOME MINOR CHANGES TO WORDING TODAY AND WILL UP THE TEMPS SLIGHTLY IN THE WEST. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK. .LWX... DC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONE DCZ001. MD...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES MDZ002>007...MDZ009>011... MDZ013>014...MDZ016>018. VA...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES VAZ021...VAZ025>03a1... VAZ036>042...VAZ050>057. WV...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES WVZ048>055.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 13 to 14, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5254224.