1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 21, 2:15 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
315 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2001
BASED ON LATEST RADAR/CLD APPEARANCE....AM CONCERNED WITH STG/SVR
CONVECTION BRIEFLY THIS EVENING OVR SW ZNS IN WARM SECTOR.
WRMFMT MOVING SLOWLY N THIS AFTN...BTWN AKQ AND RIC AT 3 PM. MOIST
AIRMASS TO BLD OVERNIGHT BUT EXPECT INSTABILITY TO SUBSIDE AFT
HEATING IS LOST LATER THIS EVENING...BUT ON/OFF SHRA ACTIVITY TO
RMN. MAIN CDFNT THRU IN/MO TO MOV E INTO VA TUE EVENING. ADDITIONAL
HEATING TUE WL ALLOW FOR GOOD INSTABILITY AHD OF FNT AND WND
PROFILES ATTM FOR 30HRS OUT LOOKING LIKE DECENT SPEED SHEAR. SLGT
RISK LOOKS GOOD BUT AM NOT CLEAR ON EXACT TIMING TO ISSUE SPS ATTM
NOR WILLING TO PUT SVR IN ZN FCST JUST YET. FNT TO MOV OFFSHORE WED
MORNING FOLLOWED BY CUTOFF LOW OVR CNTRL U.S. MOVING SLOWLY E INTO
FRI SO LATER PDS UP/DOWN WRT TO PRECIP FCST. EXTENDED PD UPR TROF TO
SHIFT OFFSHORE LATER SAT WITH DRY MEMORIAL DAY ATTM. WITH
THAT...TAKING PREVIOUS FCST AND RAISING POPS. TEMPS NOT CHANGING
TOO MUCH THRU ALL PDS.
FCSTID = 71
SBY 61 77 58 74 / 70 70 60 0
OXB 59 75 59 70 / 70 70 60 0
ECG 65 80 64 76 / 70 70 60 0
ORF 65 81 64 71 / 70 50 60 0
PHF 65 80 60 74 / 70 70 60 0
AKQ 65 84 62 76 / 70 70 60 0
RIC 65 80 58 75 / 70 70 60 0
FVX 65 84 62 76 / 70 70 60 0
.AKQ...
MD...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS FENWICK ISL TO CHINCOTEAGUE.
NC...NONE.
VA...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS CHINCOTEAGUE TO PARRAMORE ISL.
DENSE FOG ADVSRY FOR ZONES VAZ091...094>098.
SCHUMANNThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado (F0) occurred in the 5000 block of Manning Road. Several small outbuildings destroyed including a 30 foot wooden shed. Three 2 to 3 foot diameter trees blown over.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Virginia, 2001Warnings in Virginia, May 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: 5247190.