Thunderstorm winds knocked down about 100 trees and power lines in the southern portion of Greenbrier County. Some trees fell on cars and homes.
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Thunderstorm winds knocked down about 100 trees and power lines in the southern portion of Greenbrier County. Some trees fell on cars and homes. One person suffered minor injuries when a tree fell on the car they were in.
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 May 9, 1:30 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 230 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 MODELS CONT TO HANDLE WAVES COMING OVER THE RIDGE WITH RELATIVELY GOOD CONSISTENCY. CRNT WAVE OF STORMS WILL EXIT THE REGION THIS EVENING...WITH ANOTHER WAVE PROGGED TO MOVE OVER THE MID-ATL AREA TMRW...ALBEIT JUST A BIT FURTHER NORTH. THEN UPR RIDGE PROGRESSES EAST. STRONG WAVE ROTATING THRU THE TROF OVER THE GREAT LAKES PUSHES A COLD FRONT THRU THE AREA SUNDAY. PCPN ALONG THE FRONT WILL DIMINISH THRU THE DAY AS DYNAMICS PULL OUT TO THE NORTH. CLEARING SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH MOSTLY CLEAR AND COOL WX THRU TUESDAY NGT OR WED. SOME UPSLOPE SHOWERS POSSIBLE IN THE FAR NW MONDAY AFTN AND EVE. NEXT WAVE STILL PROGGED TO APPROACH THE AREA TOWARD THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. FCSTID = 9 ROA 65 82 67 83 / 30 30 30 40 LYH 62 83 68 84 / 30 30 30 30 DAN 64 87 69 87 / 30 30 30 30 BLF 60 79 64 72 / 30 30 30 50 LWB 57 78 61 70 / 30 30 40 50 BCB 60 80 63 76 / 30 30 30 40 TNB 60 77 59 74 / 30 30 20 40 .RNK... NC...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE.
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-100845- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 455 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AS WELL AS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY WARNING AREA TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY. A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE REGION ON SUNDAY WILL BE THE LEADING EDGE OF A COOLER AIRMASS...WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED THROUGH MID WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. AMS
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-WVZ 042>045-101000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1205 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT IS GREATEST ACROSS THE GREENBRIER VALLEY...THE ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS... AND AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROANOKE TO LYNCHBURG. THIS AREA WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF A WARM FRONT THAT WILL BE PUSHING NORTH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STORMS TO CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL TODAY AND TONIGHT. AMS/SPN
WVZ045-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 230 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 4 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. $S BS
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:38 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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