As a cold front moved across the area, a line of thunderstorms formed along it. Some sections of this line of storms took on bowing characteristics and produced damaging winds.
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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.
The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.
As a cold front moved across the area, a line of thunderstorms formed along it. Some sections of this line of storms took on bowing characteristics and produced damaging winds.
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 Jul 31, 12:38 PM EST, 17 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 632 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ032-043-044-058-059-011045- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-PATRICK-HENRY- PITTSYLVANIA-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 632 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. SCATTERED STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HEAT INDICES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ022>024-033>035-045>047-011045- ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-CAMPBELL- APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- 632 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HEAT INDICES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-WVZ042>045-011045- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI- MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-MERCER- SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 632 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT DROPPING INTO THE REGION TODAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1146 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 VAZ015-016-311630- GRAYSON VA-CARROLL VA- 1146 AM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF GALAX MOVING EAST... AT 1141 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF FRIES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...WOODLAWN...GALAX HILLSVILLE AIRPORT AT 1155 AM EDT...LAMBSBURG AT NOON EDT...HILLSVILLE AT 1205 PM EDT...FANCY GAP AT 1210 PM EDT...GLADESBORO AND CANA AT 1215 PM EDT AND DUGSPUR AT 1220 PM EDT... EXPECT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR 30 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. JDS
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</html>The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:56 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two trees were blown over onto power lines near the intersection of Park Springs Road and Highway 86.
A tree was blown down along Purley Church Road. Damage values are estimated.
Trees were blown down onto Highway 62. Damage values are estimated.
A tree was blown down onto Badgett Sisters Parkway. Damage values are estimated.
A tree was blown down along Stephentown Road. Damage values are estimated.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2008
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: 125478, 125480, 125484, 125497, 125503.