Heavy Rain in Virginia, November 1 to 30, 2001

Name: Heavy Rain in Virginia, November 1 to 30, 2001
Start: 2001-11-01T00:00
End: 2001-11-30T23:00
Location: Virginia

November 1 to 30, 2001 · NWS RLX · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Total monthly precipitation was less than an inch for most communities. 01 inches.

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.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS RLX wrote it up.

Total monthly precipitation was less than an inch for most communities. John Flannagan Lake measured 0.48 inches, Grundy had 0.51 inches, Clintwood saw 0.85 inches, and Hurley reported 1.01 inches. At Clintwood, it was the driest November since records began in 1964. Surface water declined and many small streams stopped running.

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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 2:45 PM EST, 9 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 2:45 PM EST, 9 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
245 PM EST WED OCT 31 2001

WRAPPING UP A DRY OCTOBER...BUT ACTUALLY OCTOBER 2000 WAS EVEN DRIER.

TOUGH PREDICTION ON DEW POINT AND WIND FOR THURSDAY.  NOT
MAJOR FEATURES FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC...BUT KEY ELEMENTS FOR OUR
CONTINUED FIRE SUPPORT.  CONCERNING DEW PTS...THINK GUIDANCE BRINGS
DEW POINTS UP TOO QUICKLY ON THU.  BY FRI...ETA HAS 60 DEW
POINTS...AHEAD OF FRONT...I HAVE 50 TO 55 FRI.  CONCERNING WIND ON
THU...PROBLEM IS VEIL OF CIRRUS CUTTING DOWN ON HEATING AND MIXING.
FORECASTING WIND IN NOVEMBER IS TOUGH UNDER THESE SITUATIONS.  MAY
BE QUITE VARIABLE WITH OCNL GUSTS 20 MPH REACHING GRND.  ALL THINGS
CONSIDERED...HIGHEST FIRE DANGER ON THU.  SMOKE PLUMES WILL SPREAD N
TNGT UNDER INVERSION...THEN NE ON THU AFTN.

NO BIG CHANGES TO FRONTAL TIMING AND PCPN.  WILL BRING CHC AS
FAR EAST AS CKB-CRW-WILLIAMSON LINE BY 00Z SAT...THEN INTO MTNS
FRIDAY NIGHT.  SOME WEAK UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FROM RIGHT REAR OF
JET MAX PULLING NE...INTO NEW ENGLAND. ANY RAIN WOULD BE WELCOMED...
BUT WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO GET MORE THAN QUARTER OF AN INCH.

...SATURDAY AND BEYOND...IN EXTENDED FCST...

12Z AVIATION SLIGHTLY WARMER THEN 00Z MRF IN MID PERIODS AND HAVE
MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO MOS MAX TEMPERATURES THEN. MRF HAS BEEN ON
THE COLD SIDE AS YOU GET INTO LATER PERIODS SO HAVE ALSO ADJUSTED
HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LATER PERIODS...ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY AS
COLD FRONT APPROACHES.

MRF SLOWER THEN LAST RUN ON THE PRECIPITATION SO WILL CONTINUE TO
HOLD IT OFF BEYOND WEDNESDAY.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

.END / BATTY + REZEK

The radar

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Event by event

2 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Buchanan

When: November 1, 12:00 AM EST to November 30, 11:00 PM EST
Where: Buchanan forecast zone
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.267, -82.036 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Rain, Dickenson

When: November 1, 12:00 AM EST to November 30, 11:00 PM EST
Where: Dickenson forecast zone
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.126, -82.350 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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

Every storm in Virginia in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Virginia, November 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: 5270388, 5270389.