Thunderstorm Wind, Shenandoah
- When
- June 25, 5:25 PM EST
- Where
- Shenandoah County, Northeast Portion
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.983, -78.350
Trees were downed.
Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2002
A thunderstorm with damaging winds moved across Shenandoah County on the evening of the 25th. Trees were downed in the northeastern portion of the county.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
A thunderstorm with damaging winds moved across Shenandoah County on the evening of the 25th. Trees were downed in the northeastern portion of 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 Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 1:15 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:15 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 215 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002 500MB RIDGE WILL RECEDED A BIT AS A TROF JUST N OF MN MOVES INTO THE NE QUAD OF THE US. HOWEVER...MORE OF THE SAME IN THE SHORT TERM. MUGGY AGAIN TNT WILL GO WITH HZY AND ISOLTED EVE TSTMS IN THE WEST AND SW COUNTIES. ANOTHER HOT DAY WEDNESDAY WILL NEC ANOTHER HEAT ADVSRY AS THE HEAT ROLLS ON. BETTR CHC OF SOME TSRA WED AS A SHORT WAVE MOVES EAST ACROSS THE REGION WITH ANOTHER DAY OF GOOD INSTAB. EXPCT TMPS 90 TO 95 AGAIN WITH DWPTS 68 TO 73 HI VALS 98 TO 102. STRONG THU THRU TUE... S/W ROTATING THRU GREAT LAKES UPR TROF WL DRIVE A CDFNT SE INTO THE AREA ON THU. MOISTURE CIRCULATING OUT OF THE GULF ARND MS VLLY UPR LOW WL SHIFT E AND BE DRAWN NORTHWARD BY SE MOVG UPR TROF. DUE TO ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE AND APPCHG FRONT...HV RAISED POPS TO LIKELY FOR THU. AS FRONT MOVS S...WL CONT CHC POPS THU NIGHT OVR S ZONES. HV CUT BACK FRI POP AREA TO JST SRN ZONES. UPR RDG WL BLD OVR FA LATE FRI THRU WKEND AND SFC HIGH PRES WL DOMINATE RGN. COOLER DRIER AIR WL ADVECT INTO AREA BHND FRONT RETURNING TEMPS TO MORE SEASONABLE VALUES. SFC HIGH WL SLIDE OFFSHORE ERLY NXT WK AND LGT SE FLOW WL BRING INCRG RH TO THE RGN. WK CONVERGENCE IN VCNTY OF BLUE RDG CUD SPARK ISOLD TSRA/S BUT POPS NOT HIGH ENUF TO MENTION AT THIS TIME. ARTHUR/ROSA .LWX... DC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR WED FOR DCZ001. MD...HEAT ADVISORY FOR WED FOR ZONES MDZ003>007... MDZ009>011...MDZ013>014...MDZ016. VA...HEAT ADVISORY FOR WED FOR ZONES VAZ025>031... VAZ036>042...VAZ050>057. WV...HEAT ADVISORY FOR WED FOR ZONES WVZ051>053.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Maryland, June 25 to 26, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, June 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5301973.