Flash Flood, Washington
- When
- July 3, 2:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Washington County, Countywide
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.725, -81.960 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Virginia, July 3, 2002
Flooding was reported across the county.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
Flooding was reported across the county.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 9:10 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:10 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1010 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 SATELLITE AND AREA OBSERVATIONS SHOW PATCHY FOG ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE WITH SOME AREAS OF SCT-BKN AC AND CS AS WELL. AREA SOUNDINGS AT BOTH BNA AND RNK SHOW AIRMASS REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH FORECAST CAPES ABOVE 3000 J/KG AND LIFTED INDICES AGAIN NEAR -8 GIVEN EXPECTED HIGHS NEAR 90 AND DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S. PER SPC DISC...PLENTY OF BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM YESTERDAYS CONVECTION...SO SCATTERED CONVECTION EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. AREA IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOUNDINGS SUGGEST MAIN THREAT WILL BE MARGINAL LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. ALSO...GIVEN K-INDICES IN THE UPPER 30S....TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL BE A THREAT. SINCE STORM MOTION WILL BE SLOW...SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING A CONCERN AS WELL. WILL LOWER HIGHS FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA DUE TO MORE EXTENSIVE HIGH AND MID LEVEL CLOUDS. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. DH
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, July 2002
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: 5308918.