Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery
- When
- April 19, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Blacksburg
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 37.233, -80.417
Damaging Wind in Virginia, April 19, 2002
Thunderstorm winds on the 19th downed large tree limbs in Blacksburg.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 RNK wrote it up.
Thunderstorm winds on the 19th downed large tree limbs in Blacksburg.
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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 9:10 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 9:10 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 1010 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGES THIS AFTN IS POPS. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FLARE UP WEST OF BKW AND LWB...ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK UPPER LEVEL VORT AND DIVERGENCE ALOFT. UPPER AIR SOUNDINGS DEPICT DRY LOW LEVELS...BUT ARE VERY UNSTABLE. 12Z CAPE AT RNK WAS 1300 WITH LI OF -5...WHILE GSO CAPE WAS 2300 AND LI OF -6. PWAT AROUND 1 INCH. WITH LEFTOVER MOISTURE BOUNDARIES FROM LAST EVENINGS SHOWERS...PLUS DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND SOME UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...MOST AREAS WILL SEE SCATTERED CONVECTION THIS AFTN...WITH BETTER CHANCES IN SE WV...THE ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS AND SRN SHD VLY WHERE BETTER DYNAMICS EXIST. MAY HAVE TO BUMP POPS UP...BUT KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE SOUTH. TEMP-WISE...12Z TEMPS WERE COOLER THAN MOS...AND WITH DEBRIS CLOUDINESS AROUND...CURRENT FORECAST HIGHS MAY BE TOO WARM. WILL LOOK AT 15Z TEMPS B4 MAKING ANY FINAL DECISIONS ON HIGHS. .RNK... NC...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. WHP
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:28 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
- Damaging Winds in District of Columbia, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, April 19 to 21, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, April 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: 5292318.