Hail, Tazewell
- When
- June 15, 2:08 PM EST
- Where
- Tazewell County, Claypool Hill
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 37.070, -81.770
Hail covered the ground.
Hail in Virginia, June 15, 2007
Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of nickels.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of nickels.
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 15, 1:56 PM EST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 1:56 PM EST, 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 256 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST OFF THE COAST WHILE THE UPPER LOW OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST BEGINS TO SHIFT EAST...WHILE ONE MORE UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE DROPS ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... CONVECTION ACROSS THE SWRN CWA THIS AFTERNOON WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST INTO THE NC FOOTHILLS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WITH SE FLOW AND WEDGE...REST OF THE AREA WILL REMAIN GENERALLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A SHOWER. OVERNIGHT...UPPER ENERGY PASSES SOUTH...AND WE SHOULD SEE SOME CLEARING WHICH WILL LEAD TO FOG FORMATION. COULD SEE A STRATUS DECK ALONG/EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...AS CAD SLOWLY WEAKENS. ONE MORE SHORTWAVE PINWHEELS SOUTH ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE UPPER LOW SATURDAY...BRINGING THE BEST LIFT AND CHANCE OF PRECIP TO THE SRN CWA...30/40 POPS. BEST CONVERGENCE WILL BE ALONG THE SRN BLUE RIDGE. FURTHER NORTH WILL SEE ISOLATED CONVECTION...WHILE THE COOL POOL SHIFTS EAST. CONVECTION SHOULD WANE BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING...AND LACK OF WEDGE SHOULD PRODUCE MILDER TEMPS. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... UPPER RIDGE BEGINS BUILDING IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST SAT NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...WITH HOT TEMPS RETURNING TO MUCH OF THE AREA. ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME CAPPED...AND THREAT OF PRECIP WILL BE REDUCED. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... HOT TEMPS WILL PERSIST TUESDAY...BEFORE A SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES/MID ATLANTIC MIDWEEK...SENDING A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS/STORMS...AND COOLER TEMPS. WE GO BACK TO MORE DIURNAL CONVECTION THU/FRI...AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE TN VLY. && .AVIATION /19Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... MVFR CIGS AND OCNL DRZL WILL PERSIST A LITTLE LONGER THAN EXPECTED...COOL WEDGE IS VERY STRONG. TSTMS ARE DEVELOPING WEST OF THE WEDGE OVER FAR WESTERN VA/EASTERN KY ATTM. TSTM ACTIVITY LIKELY TO BE IN THE BLF VICINITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT...AS SKIES SCATTER OUT...WITH LIGHT WINDS AND A LOT OF LEFT-OVER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...EXPECT AT LEAST MVFR FOG/STRATUS TO DEVELOP...POSSIBLY IFR- ESPECIALLY AT LWB. LIGHT EAST/SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY IN THE EAST SO THE CHANCE OF OFF AND ON MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS WILL BE HIGHER THAN CLIMATOLOGY THROUGH THE PERIOD. THERE WILL STILL BE A LOW CHANCE OF LATE DAY CONVECTION IN THE MTNS SATURDAY. SUNDAY AND MONDAY A WARM RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION AND PREVENTS ANY AFT CONVECTION. MVFR FOG IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. TUESDAY...THE THREAT OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VA...NONE. NC...NONE. WV...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...WP NEAR TERM...WP SHORT TERM...WP LONG TERM...WP AVIATION...JJ/JS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 11:41 AM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1241 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2007 VAZ011-013-014-016>020-022>024-WVZ043>045-161645- GILES-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH- ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 1241 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009-010-012-015-WVZ042-161645- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-WYTHE-GRAYSON-MERCER- 1241 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ032>035-043>047-058-059-161645- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-PATRICK-FRANKLIN- BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 1241 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:08 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Smyth
- When
- June 15, 3:53 PM EST
- Where
- Smyth County, Adwolf
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 36.780, -81.580
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2007
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 15, 2007
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Texas, June 15 to 16, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 15, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 15, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 15, 2007
- Hail in Kentucky, June 15, 2007
- High Surf in Hawaii, June 15 to 16, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 15, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 15, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 15, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, June 15, 2007
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, June 2007
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: 32652, 32653.