Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 5, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 5, 2002
Start: 2002-06-05T15:30
End: 2002-06-05T16:00
Location: West Virginia

June 5, 2002 · NWS LWX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A severe thunderstorm hit Berkeley County during the late afternoon of the 5th. In Mountain View and Inwood, a tree fell onto a house.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $16,000
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 severe thunderstorm hit Berkeley County during the late afternoon of the 5th. In Mountain View and Inwood, a tree fell onto a house. Hail of unknown size also fell in Inwood. In Martinsburg, trees and power lines were downed. The most widespread damage was reported in the Bunker Hill area. Several trees were uprooted and nine telephone poles were snapped off along Three Run Road and Aspen Drive. One tree fell onto a home and tore a hole in the roof. A total of 2600 county customers lost power as a direct result of the storm.

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 5, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
300 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THRU THU NIGHT...

THE PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED - NOW ITS JUST WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO
HAPPEN. DAYTIME HEATING/HI RH HAS PUSHED SFC BASED CAPE OVR 3000 IN
MUCH OF THE CWA. ANY CELLS THAT DO DVLP COULD BE PULSE SVR. BETTER
CHC WOULD BE LATER THIS AFTN/EVE AS FNTL BAND DRAWS CLOSER. BOXES
HAVE BEEN ISSUED ACROSS OH/KY...AND XPCT THESE WL CONTINUE BEING
ISSUED INTO THE EVENING HRS. SPC IS CONSIDERING BOXING MUCH OF OUR
CWA. STAY TUNED...

MDLS CONTINUALLY SLOW THE PROGRESS OF THE FNT...W/ WK WV FORMING OVR
SRN VA THURS AFTN. DAY 2 OUTLOOK CONTINUES CHC OF SVR IN THE SE
CORNER OF THE CWA...AND GNRL TSTMS ACROSS RMDR OF AREA THURS. WL
CONTINUE POPS DURING THU/THU NGT. TEMPS COOLER ON THURS W/ INCRSD
CLD CVR.

WOODY

LONG TERM...FRI THRU NEXT WED...

SHORTWAVE PUSHES THRU THE AREA FRI AND SHOVES THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
AND ASSOCD SFC WAVES TO THE SE OF THE AREA. HGTS RISE OVR THE
WEEKEND AS STG UPR LVL RIDGE BUILDS ALG THE E COAST. AT THE
SFC...HIGH PRES BUILDS INTO THE AREA LATE FRI INTO THE WEEKEND THEN
SHIFTS OFFSHR BY MON. UPR LVL RDG SHIFTS OFFSHR BY TUE/WED AND NEXT
UPR LVL TROF MOVES INTO THE AREA. THE ASSOCD SFC FNT WILL MOVE ACRS
THE REGION WED.

TREND HAS BEEN FOR THE MODELS TO SLOW DOWN THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY FOR
LATE THU AND FRI. WILL KEEP CHC OF SHRA GOING INTO EARLY FRI MORNING
IN AREAS E OF THE BLUE RDG. MODELS UNANIMOUSLY CLR THINGS OUT FOR
LATE FRI WITH CLR SKIES OVR THE WEEKEND. AIR MASS OVR THE AREA WILL
BE PLEASANT BY JUNE STANDARDS. ONLY THING TO WATCH FOR IS THE
ONSHORE FLOW BUT WITH SFC HIGH OVRHD...THINK SUBSIDENCE WILL RULE SO
CLR FCST.

SOME CI COMING OVR THE RDG ON MON BUT STILL M/S. AIR MASS SHOULD
BECOME UNSTABLE AS UPR LVL RDG AND SFC HIGH SLIDE OFFSHR SO WILL
HAVE CHC SHRA/TSRA BEGINNING TUE AFT/EVE WITH A BETTER CHC WED AS
CDFNT MOVES THRU THE AREA.

WITH SUCH A STRONG UPR LVL RDG AND HIGH HEIGHTS LATE IN THE WEEKEND
AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...WENT A BIT ABV MRF MAX TEMPS AND EVEN I MAY
NOT HAVE GONE WARM ENOUGH.

WALSTON

.LWX...
DC...NONE.
MD...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:30 PM EST, 3 hours before

DCZ001-MDZ002>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ021-025>031-036>042-
050>057-WVZ048>055-052200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
130 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA FORECASTS A SLIGHT
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE MID ATLANTIC REGION. THIS
INCLUDES MARYLAND...EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA...AND NORTHERN...CENTRAL...AND NORTHWEST VIRGINIA.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...
HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE THURSDAY... BUT THEY ARE
EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.  FRIDAY WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY.

ABW

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:20 PM EST, 10 minutes before

DCZ001-MDZ002>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ021-025>031-036>042-
050>057-WVZ048>055-060100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
420 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 389 VALID UNTIL 9:00 PM EDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING AREAS...

VIRGINIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
  ALBEMARLE             ARLINGTON             AUGUSTA
  CLARKE                CULPEPER              FAIRFAX
  FAUQUIER              FREDERICK             GREENE
  HIGHLAND              KING GEORGE           LOUDOUN
  MADISON               NELSON                ORANGE
  PAGE                  PRINCE WILLIAM        RAPPAHANNOCK
  ROCKINGHAM            SHENANDOAH            SPOTSYLVANIA
  STAFFORD              WARREN

VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CITIES INCLUDED ARE
  CITY OF FREDERICKSBURG           CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
  CITY OF FALLS CHURCH             CITY OF FAIRFAX
  CITY OF ALEXANDRIA               CITY OF MANASSAS PARK
  CITY OF MANASSAS                 CITY OF WINCHESTER
  CITY OF HARRISONBURG             CITY OF STAUNTON
  CITY OF WAYNESBORO

MARYLAND COUNTIES AND CITIES INCLUDED ARE
  ALLEGANY              ANNE ARUNDEL          BALTIMORE
  BALTIMORE CITY        CALVERT               CARROLL
  CHARLES               FREDERICK             HARFORD
  HOWARD                MONTGOMERY            PRINCE GEORGES
  ST. MARYS             WASHINGTON

DCC001-060100-

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE ADJACENT WATERS OF THE TIDAL POTOMAC FROM
KEY BRIDGE TO SMITH POINT AND THE CHESAPEAKE FROM NORTH OF POOLES
ISLAND TO SMITH POINT.

DMW

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Berkeley

When: June 5, 3:30 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
Where: Berkeley County, Countywide
Property damage: $16,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.467, -78.017

Trees and telephone poles were downed onto roads and houses.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in West Virginia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in West 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: 5302420.