Flash Flood, Suffolk (C)
- When
- June 16, 9:30 AM EST
- Where
- Suffolk (C) County, Whaleyville
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.709, -76.608 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding reported near Whaleyville. One street closed.
Flash Flooding in Virginia, June 16, 2001
2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 2
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 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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 8:30 AM EST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 8:30 AM EST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 930 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 ISSUED FFA FOR INTERIOR SE VA/INTERIOR NE NC...IN RESPONSE TO TRAINING ECHOES...3 HR PRECIP ESTIMATES OF 6+ INCHES ACROSS ISLE OF WIGHT...AND AREA MOVING SOUTH. .AKQ... MD...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS FENWICK ISL TO CHINCOTEAGUE. NC...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS NC/VA BRDR TO CURRITUCK BCH LGT. FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 4 PM NCZ013>015-030>032 VA...SCA CHES BAY S OF NEW POINT COMFORT...ATLC CSTL WTRS CHINCOTEAGUE TO NC/VA BRDR. FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 4 PM VAZ089-092-093-096 MALOIT
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:28 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Isle of Wight
- When
- June 16, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Isle of Wight County, Windsor
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.907, -76.709 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Knoxville Road, Rose Drive, and numerous other secondary roads impassable around Windsor.
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
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 16 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 16 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 16, 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: 5257081, 5257082.