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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WAKEFIELD VA
945 AM EDT THU OCT 9 2003

YESTERDAY...WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8TH...A STORM DAMAGE SURVEY WAS 
CONDUCTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN NECK AND INTERIOR MIDDLE 
PENINSULA IN VIRGINIA...PRIMARILY IN AN EFFORT TO ASSESS STORM SURGE 
MAGNITUDES IN THIS REGION.

IN LANCASTER AND EASTERN RICHMOND COUNTIES...STORM SURGES OF AROUND 
5 FEET WERE MEASURED. SURGE COMBINED WITH SIGNIFICANT WAVE ACTION 
RESULTED IN A NUMBER OF HOMES AND OTHER STRUCTURES BEING 
DAMAGED/DESTROYED. SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE...ESPECIALLY TO 
TREES...WAS OBSERVED IN AREAS CLOSE TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND 
RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER.

FURTHER UPSTREAM...SURGE OF 5.5 TO 6 FEET WAS MEASURED IN THE 
TAPPAHANNOCK AND LOWRYS POINT AREA OF ESSEX COUNTY. MAJOR DAMAGE TO 
A NUMBER OF HOMES WAS OBSERVED IN THE LOWRYS POINT AREA AS A RESULT 
OF THE COMBINATION OF SURGE AND WAVE ACTION.

IN THE COLONIAL BEACH AREA...STORM SURGE VALUES OF 6 TO 6.5 FEET 
WERE MEASURED. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED/DESTROYED BY STORM SURGE 
AND WAVE ACTION IN THE WESTMORELAND SHORES AREA NEAR COLONIAL BEACH. 
SOME ADDITIONAL DAMAGE DUE TO WIND WAS ALSO OBSERVED AND REPORTED BY 
RESIDENTS IN THE AREA.

THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN THE LOCATIONS SURVEYED 
YESTERDAY. 


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