2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jun 14, 4:55 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 555 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 WILL UPDATE TO CANCEL SVR TSTRM WATCH 425. STRNGST STORMS NOW OFFSHORE. MORE CONVECTION CRNTLY FIRING UP ALONG CDFRNT CRNTLY MOVG THRU PIEDMONT. IN SHORT TERM...CONVECTION DVLPNG ALONG S/W TROF AHEAD OF MAIN CDFRNT WILL CONT THREAT OF TSTRMS OVR WATCH AREA THIS EVE. OTHR SHWRS/TSTRMS WILL CONT ACROSS REST OF FA UNTIL MAIN CDFRNT CROSSES FA OVRNITE...MOVG OFFSHORE ERLY SAT AM. ERN TROF SETS UP WITH DRY W-NW FLOW AND COOLER TMPS INTO SUN. AS THE OLD SAYING GOES...WHEN IN A DROUGHT...LEAVE IT OUT. WHAT ONCE LOOKED LIKED SVRL CHCS FOR SOME NEEDED RAINFALL THIS UPCOMING FCST PRD...NOW APPEARS TO BE CONFINED INTO SHORT TERM. MOST AREAS WILL SEE SOME PCPN TONIGHT...BUT NOT THE QPF ONCE THOUGHT. ETA STILL PAINTING A WET SCENARIO FOR SERN VA/NE NC TONIGHT...THUS WILL CONT LIKELY POPS THERE. CHC POPS ELSEWHERE. NXT CHC (ALBEIT LOW CHC) FOR PCPN APPEARS TO BE LATE SUN AS ANTHR CDFRNT APPRCHS DRNG MAX HTNG. WILL INTRO 30 POPS ACROSS NRN HALF FA LATE SUN AS INSTABILITY APPEARS SUFFICIENT FOR SCT TSTRMS TO DVLP. HIGH PRS THEN MOVES INTO MID ATLNTC RGN...SUPRESSING ANY SYSTMS WELL INTO SRN STATES THRU LATE IN THE WEEK. THUS HAVE TAKEN PCPN OUT OF FCST ON TUE & WED. WHAT WERE LEFT WITH IS ANTHR HIGH PRS SYSTM THAT WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST...SETTING UP RESIDENCE OFF MID ATLNTC COAST. UPSHOT WILL BE ANTHR PRD OF DRY WX. WITH DRY GRND...WILL GO HIGHER THAN GUID TMPS. CWF...NO FLAGS XPCTD. FCSTID = 44 SBY 63 81 57 82 / 60 10 10 30 OXB 60 78 60 80 / 60 10 10 30 ECG 68 86 65 85 / 70 10 0 20 ORF 67 84 66 85 / 70 10 0 20 PHF 65 84 61 83 / 60 10 0 30 AKQ 63 86 59 84 / 50 10 0 30 RIC 62 83 58 83 / 50 10 10 30 FVX 60 84 56 84 / 50 10 10 30 .AKQ... MD...NONE. NC...NONE. VA...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
505 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM HERTFORD & WINFALL NC WIND DAMAGE
06/14/02 PERQUIMANS NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
SEVERAL TRAILORS
DAMAGED AND POWER
OUTGAGES REPORTED
BY EM.NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ092-093-095>098-142230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 545 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 425...WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM...HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. AT 540 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OFFSHORE. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO ...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. && 44
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
611 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM WEEKSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/14/02 PASQUOTANK NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY EM
ALSThe Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous reports of street flooding. Spotter reported 2.5 inches of rain in 45 minutes.
Numerous reports of street flooding. Water shooting out of manhole cover.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, June 2002
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: 5304221, 5304222.