Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery
- When
- June 24, 6:27 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Blacksburg
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 37.233, -80.417
Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, June 24, 2002
A thunderstorm during the evening of the 24th produced a wind gust to 60 mph and dime size hail in Blacksburg. In addition, the storm produced flash flooding on Merrimac Road in Merrimac.
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
- 3
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.
A thunderstorm during the evening of the 24th produced a wind gust to 60 mph and dime size hail in Blacksburg. In addition, the storm produced flash flooding on Merrimac Road in Merrimac.
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 Jun 24, 2:08 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:08 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 308 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2002 ONE LONE SHOWER ALONG ALLEGHANY/ASHE LINE. ATMOS REMAINS CAPPED WITH DRY AIR ALOFT. CU FIELD AROUND HERE HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING ANY VERTICAL STRUCTURE TO THEM. MAY SEE MORE DEVELOPMENT LATER TOWARD EVENING. FOR NOW WILL LEAN TOWARD SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE FAR SW BLF-TNB...AND LEAVE DRY REST OF FA...UNLESS I SEE SOMETHING JUST BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE THAT CHANGES MY MIND. SHORT RANGE... TUESDAY LOOKS TO BE A CARBON COPY OF TODAY...WITH ANY CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA CONFINED MAINLY TO THE SW VA/NW NC MTN AREAS. ANOTHER HOT DAY...ESPECIALLY OUT EAST WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S. HEAT INDICES WILL BE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. AS WE HEAD INTO WEDNESDAY...A WEAK VORT ROTATES NWD INTO NC...THEN EAST TOWARD THE COAST DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY...WITH MORE TROFFINESS SHOWING UP. SHOULD BE A BETTER CHANCE CWA WIDE...AS MEAN LAYER MOISTURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE. WED...WE ALSO SEE AN 8H TROF WITH GOOD CONVERGENCE. WILL HAVE BETTER CHANCE IN THE WEST. EXTENDED... UPPER TROF EXPECTED TO DIG INTO THE NORTHEAST THIS PERIOD...WHILE LOWER MS VLY TROF MEANDERS IN WEAK FLOW ACROSS THE MS VLY INTO THE WEEKEND. LEE TROF REMAINS THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD...FINALLY GETTING KICKED EAST BY UPPER TROF LATE IN THE WEEKEND. THEREFORE WILL ADD CHANCE POPS TO WHOLE FA SATURDAY AND FOR THE WEST ON SUNDAY. LEAVING MONDAY DRY FOR NOW. FCSTID = 5 ROA 70 92 70 88 / 0 20 20 30 LYH 66 92 67 88 / 0 20 20 30 DAN 70 95 71 90 / 0 10 10 30 BLF 65 83 68 82 / 20 40 40 50 LWB 61 84 62 80 / 10 30 30 50 BCB 64 86 65 85 / 10 30 30 40 TNB 63 82 63 81 / 20 40 40 50 .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 23:25 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Montgomery
- When
- June 24, 6:27 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Blacksburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 37.233, -80.417
Flash Flood, Montgomery
- When
- June 24, 7:10 PM EST to 7:40 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Merrimac
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 37.174, -80.387 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 24 to 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 24 to 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, June 24, 2002
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, June 24, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 24, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 24, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, June 24, 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: 5301458, 5301459, 5301460.