Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002

Name: Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002
Start: 2002-07-03T15:05
End: 2002-07-03T15:05
Location: Virginia

July 3, 2002 · NWS AKQ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. 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
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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 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 Jul 3, 2:40 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:40 PM EST, 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
340 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE AND RADAR SHOWING SCATTERED PULSE STORMS
GOING UP...MAINLY ALONG A LINE FROM SBY TO RIC TO FVX. THE STRONGEST
STORMS THUS FAR HAVE BEEN WEST OF THE CWA. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE
TO FIRE...ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PRODUCED BY THE EXISTING STORMS.
STILL SOME POTENTIAL FOR ISOLD PULSE SEVERE...ALTHOUGH NOTHING
REALLY APPROACHING SEVERE IN THE CWA THUS FAR. HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN
THE MAIN FEATURE THUS FAR FROM THE SLOW MOVING STORMS.

MODELS (ESPECIALLY AVN) HAVE TRENDED SLOWER WITH FROPA...WHICH NOW
IS PROGGED TO OCCUR FRIDAY BY THE ETA AND AVN. BECAUSE OF
THIS...EXPECT THE FOURTH WILL PLAY OUT MUCH LIKE TODAY...WITH SCT
DEVELOPMENT ALONG SFC TROF AXIS...WHICH WILL AGAIN FAVOR NRN AND WRN
COUNTIES. SE ZONES WILL LIKELY STAY DRY...ALTHOUGH WILL KEEP AN
ISOLD MENTION. WILL ALSO INTRODUCE LOW POP FOR FRI AFTERNOON FOR FAR
SRN ZONES ON FRI...BASED ON SLOWER FRONTAL MOVEMENT...ALTHOUGH
COVERAGE MAY AGAIN BE SPARSE WITH THIS BACK DOOR FEATURE.

SOMEWHAT COOLER LESS HUMID CONDITIONS ON TAP FOR THE WEEKEND. A
SLIGHT WARM UP ON MONDAY...THEN NEXT WEAK FRONT TO SHARPEN UP LEE
TROF TUESDAY. FAVOR GOING WITH CHC OF TSTMS ON TUE...THEN DRY AGAIN
WED BASED ON LATEST MEDIUM RANGE SOLUTIONS...BUT STILL NEED TO LOOK
AT HPC GUIDANCE.

MARINE...LIGHT WINDS...NO FLAGS.

FCSTID = 18
SBY   74  93  71  85 /  20  30  30  20
OXB   74  89  71  82 /  20  30  30  20
ECG   74  95  73  91 /  20  20  20  30
ORF   74  95  73  91 /  20  20  20  30
PHF   75  95  71  88 /  20  20  20  20
AKQ   74  97  72  91 /  20  30  30  30
RIC   74  95  71  88 /  20  30  30  20
FVX   73  95  70  89 /  30  30  30  20

.AKQ...
MD...HEAT ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR ZONES MDZ021>024.
NC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR ZONES
NCZ012>013...NCZ030...NCZ014.
VA...HEAT ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR ZONES
VAZ048>049...VAZ060>094...VAZ096.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM...VAZ048-049-060>062.

REILLY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:13 AM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes before

MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-VAZ048-049-060>100-032000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1013 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...

THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
OVER THE VIRGINIA PIEDMONT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...PORTIONS
OF THE EASTERN SHORE...AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD...ANY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...AS THE ATMOSPHERE
HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING...

WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AS THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW
MOVING. SHOULD THE SLOW MOVING STORMS BECOME POSITIONED OVER URBAN
AREAS...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

REILLY

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:30 AM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-VAZ048-049-060>100-042000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1030 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...

THIS AFTERNOON...MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY...WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE
MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
OVER THE REST OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...PORTIONS OF THE LOWER EASTERN
SHORE...AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE
THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...AS THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING...

WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AS THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW
MOVING. SHOULD THE SLOW MOVING STORMS BECOME POSITIONED OVER URBAN
AREAS...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

REILLY

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:23 PM EST, 42 minutes before

VAZ048-049-061-062-040000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
323 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCATIONS RECEIVING ONE TO TWO
INCHES IN UNDER AN HOUR.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE A BRIEFLY STRONG WIND GUST
OVER 55 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCHES OR GREATER IN DIAMETER IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY
ALSO ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/AKQ

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:06 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Chesterfield

When: July 3, 3:05 PM EST
Where: Chesterfield County, Chesterfield
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 37.367, -77.517

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Virginia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5309683.