High Wind in Virginia, October 24 to 25, 2001

Name: High Wind in Virginia, October 24 to 25, 2001
Start: 2001-10-24T23:30
End: 2001-10-25T00:15
Location: Virginia

October 24 to 25, 2001 · NWS RLX · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Brief wind gusts of 35 to 45 mph were associated with a fast moving line of showers and embedded thunderstorms. The rain was associated with a strong autumn cold front.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $4,000
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.

Brief wind gusts of 35 to 45 mph were associated with a fast moving line of showers and embedded thunderstorms. The rain was associated with a strong autumn cold front. Scattered locations had trees or large branches blown down along roads. No structural damage to dwellings was reported.

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 24, 2:19 PM EST, 9 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:19 PM EST, 9 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
319 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001

SHORT TERM:  MODELS TRENDS CONTINUE TO BE FARTHER NW WITH THE BEST
DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG COLD FRONT BLOWING THROUGH AREA
TONIGHT.  WILL ADD STRONG WORDING FOR THUNDERSTORMS NW COUNTIES AND
HOIST WIND ADV EVERYWHERE OVERNIGHT...PRIMARILY WORRIED ABOUT GUSTS
JUST AS FRONT GOES BY.

FAIRLY STRONG WINDS INDICATED FOR THU AND EVEN FRI...BUT
WILL LEAVE TO MID SHIFT TOP CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT TO EXTEND OR
REISSUE WIND ADV FOR THU.

CONT...CAT POPS TONIGHT...OTHERWISE LOOKS DRY INTO FRIDAY.  WILL
FARTHER CURTAIL POPS FRIDAY TO NORTHEAST COUNTIES DURING THE
AFTERNOON AS IT TAKES UNTIL XTNDD TO GET WRAP AROUND BEHIND SECOND
SHOT OF COLD AIR GOING.

GENERALLY IN BETWEEN THE NUMBERS...FWCS DO LOOK INORDINATELY HIGH
FOR HIGHS FRI.  ABOVE GUIDANCE POPS FOR TONIGHT.

XTNDD:  MDLS HV EVOLVED INTO A BENIGN PD WITH HI PRES BLDNG IN FM
THE MIDDLE MS RVR VLY FM SUN ON.  B4 THAT NWRLY CAA FLO DOMINATES
FRI NGT AND SAT WITH TNKNSS VALUES OF 2768DM IN THE H10-H7 LAYER AND
1280DM IN THE H10-H8...SO THERE IS JUSTIFICATION FOR SN.  HWVR WITH
CLD TEMPS ARND -7C...THAT MAKES ME THINK RA CUD MIX IN AS CLDS WUD
LKLY BE COMPOSED OF LIQUID DROPLETS.  SO WL PLAY RA/SN IN THE SRN
LOLNDS FRI NGT OTRW SN ELSW.  SAT CHC RA/SN ACR THE ENTIRE AREA.  BY
MON THE WRMUP COMMENCES AS HI PRES SLIPS OFF THE ERN SEABOARD
ESTABLISHING A WAA PATTERN FOR THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK.

.RLX...
WV...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES WVZ005>011...WVZ013>020...
WVZ024>040...WVZ046>047.

VA...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES VAZ003>004.

KY...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES KYZ101>103...KYZ105.

OH...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES OHZ066>067...OHZ075>076...
OHZ083>087.

.END/ TRM / 99

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 24, 10:48 PM EST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV
1148 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1045 PM                              OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   JACKSON                        POWER LINES DOWN. ONE TREE
                                          DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1105 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   CARTER                         ONE TREE DOWN. HIGHWAY
                                          SIGN BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

1110 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   BOYD                           SEVERAL TREES DOWN. POWER
                                          LINES DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS
                                          BLEW. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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The radar

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Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Buchanan

When: October 24, 11:30 PM EST to October 25, 12:15 AM EST
Where: Buchanan forecast zone
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.267, -82.036 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Dickenson

When: October 24, 11:30 PM EST to October 25, 12:15 AM EST
Where: Dickenson forecast zone
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.126, -82.350 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

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, October 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: 5268432, 5268433.