Name: Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 1, 2002
Start: 2002-06-01T17:10
End: 2002-06-01T17:10
Location: Virginia

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
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.

Trees were reported down in Abingdon.

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 Jun 1, 1:16 PM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 1:16 PM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
216 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002

A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WILL EXIT THE AREA BY ZONE PRESS TIME.
AIRMASS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA IS FAIRLY UNSTABLE WITH LIFTED INDICES
BETWEEN -4 TO -6...BUT ENOUGH SUBSIDENCE AND LACK OF FORCING TO
PRODUCE STORMS.  WILL CONTINUE WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST...OTHERWISE CALL FOR DRY CONDITIONS
OVERNIGHT.  PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY...SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT.

FOR SUNDAY...THETA-E RIDGE OVER KENTUCKY IS PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTH
INTO THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. POSSIBLY MCV MOVING
SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY MAY HELP PRODUCE A BETTER CHANCE
OF AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FOR TRI/TYS AREAS...OTHERWISE
HOT...HAZY AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL DOMINANT AS UPPER RIDGE REMAINS
OVER THE GULF COAST STATES AND TENNESSEE VALLEY.

FOR MONDAY...BEST THETA-E/MOISTURE LIFTS NORTH AND EAST...SO ONLY A
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MOUNTAINS AND NORTHEAST OTHERWISE A DRY AND HOT
FORECAST. HIGHS BETWEEN 90 AND 95 WILL BE COMMON OVER MOST OF THE
TENNESSEE VALLEY.

FCSTID =
CHA   68  93  68  94 /  10  20  20  10
TYS   68  90  68  91 /  10  30  20  20
TRI   64  86  64  87 /  20  40  30  30
OQT   68  90  68  91 /  10  30  20  20

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Washington

When: June 1, 5:10 PM EST
Where: Washington County, Abingdon
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.217, -81.967

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Virginia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Virginia, June 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: 5301669.