Outflow boundaries from earlier showers and thunderstorms interacted with a warm, moist and unstable air mass to trigger isolated severe thunderstorms. These storms produced a couple of reports of damaging winds and large hail on June 7.
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Outflow boundaries from earlier showers and thunderstorms interacted with a warm, moist and unstable air mass to trigger isolated severe thunderstorms. These storms produced a couple of reports of damaging winds and large hail on June 7.
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 7, 1:33 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 233 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 .SYNOPSIS... HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY THANKS TO THE INFLUENCE OF A PERSISTENT AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE. TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY THE HIGH WILL SHIFT OFF THE COAST AND A COLD FRONT WILL TRY TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE AREA. THE RESULT WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND BETTER COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/... LITTLE CHANGE TO CURRENT SCENARIO WITH UPPER RIDGE IN PLACE AND DIURNAL CONVECTION DRIVEN BY DIFF HEATING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND OLD BOUNDARIES. HOWEVER EXACTLY WHERE TSRA DEVELOPS AND EXPANSE OF COVERAGE STILL IFFY THIS EVENING AND AGAIN SUNDAY DESPITE STRONG INSTABILITY FIELDS. FOR NOW WILL FOLLOW SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST WITH CHANCE POPS INTO THE EVENING WEST AND EXTEND A BIT EAST GIVEN LEE TROF WHERE THE NAM/RUC CONTINUE TO FOCUS. OTRW STILL APPEARS WITH LACK OF MUCH SUPPORT ALOF THAT ANY CONVECTION SHOULD FADE TO MAINLY CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF POPS AFTER MIDNIGHT. AGAIN WENT CLOSER TO WARMER MET MOS GIVEN TOO COOL MAV VALUES OF LATE. ANOTHER DAY OF POTENTIAL RECORD HEAT LOOKS IN STORE ON SUNDAY AS SURFACE RIDGE PRODUCES A LITTLE MORE WESTERLY COMPONENT OVER THE REGION. NAM AGAIN SHOWS BEST CONVERGENCE ALONG EASTERN LEE TROF BUT SUSPECT LIKELY FARTHER EAST THAN TODAY SO KEEPING BEST POPS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE AND WEST WHERE 20/30 NATURE SEEMS BEST. OTRW PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY AND HOT AGAIN WITH 95-100 EAST AND 87-93 WEST. MAY BE CLOSE TO HEAT ADVISORY LEVELS EXTREME EAST AS DEWPOINTS HAVE BEEN SLOWER TO FALL EACH DAY BUT SINCE MOST FORECAST INDICES BELOW 105 WILL HOLD ON THE NPW. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... WE WILL BEGIN TO SEE THE ONSET OF THE DEPARTURE OF THE CENTER OF THE UPPER HIGH TO OFF THE COAST OF THE CAROLINAS. WHAT THIS WILL MEAN FOR THE AREA WILL BE LESS OF A CAP ACROSS THE REGION...A BETTER INFLUX OF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION...AND A PROGRESSIVELY GREATER INFLUENCE OF UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS IN THE WEST THANKS TO AN APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. ALSO...TEMPERATURES WILL START TO TREND SLIGHTLY COOLER. LOOK FOR DIURNAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO BE MORE PROBABLE ACROSS A GREATER EXPANSE OF THE REGION...BUT STILL GENERALLY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED IN COVERAGE. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... THE TREND THAT STARTED MONDAY-TUESDAY WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH HEADS FROM THE GREAT LAKES INTO NEW ENGLAND AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES INTO AND THEN STALLS OVER THE REGION. LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO TREND STILL A LITTLE COOLER AND PRECIPITATION COVERAGE TO BE BETTER. FRIDAY INCREASE SLIGHTLY AS THE FRONT BEGINS TO LIFT NORTH AGAIN AS A WARM FRONT. IT WILL STILL BE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE AREA THOUGH...SO ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST. SATURDAY WE WILL NEED TO WATCH ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACH THE AREA. ITS INFLUENCE WILL HELP CONTINUE THE MENTION OF ISOLATED AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS IN THE FORECAST. && .AVIATION /19Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE REGION WILL MAINTAIN SIMILAR CONDITIONS OF THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH HEATING WILL KEEP SCT/BKN CUMULUS THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING...AND ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY ALONG THE RIDGES INTO THIS EVENING. MAINLY UNRESTRICTED CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL WITH VFR WEATHER EXPECTED AT ALL TERMINAL FORECAST POINTS WITH EXCEPTION OF A POSSIBLE BRIEF INTRUSION INTO IFR RANGE IN LATE NIGHT VALLEY FOG IN THE VICINITY OF KLWB...WITH SOME AREAS OF LIGHT FOG OR HAZE AROUND DAYBREAK OVER THE PIEDMONT. DUE TO THE ISOLATED/WIDELY SCATTERED NATURE OF ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...THREAT TO ANY PARTICULAR TERMINAL FORECAST POINT APPEARS QUITE REMOTE...SO ONLY INCLUDED MENTION OF VCTS DURING TIMES THAT THREAT WILL BE THE GREATEST. SIMILAR WEATHER REGIME LOOKS TO LAST INTO MONDAY BEFORE A WEAK COLD FRONT BRINGS BETTER CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND STORMS BY MIDWEEK WITH LOCAL MVFR CONDITIONS AT TIMES. && .CLIMATE... RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES JUNE 8 AND JUNE 9. TOP 10 LIST ARE AVAILABLE FOR THESE SITES LISTED BELOW AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CLIMATE/LOCALDATA.PHP?WFO=RNK (LOWER CASE). BLACKSBURG VA BLUEFIELD WV DANVILLE VA 6/8...90 IN 1984 6/8...89 IN 2007 6/8...98 IN 1988 6/9...92 IN 1953 6/9...88 IN 1966 6/9...97 IN 1990 LYNCHBURG VA ROANOKE VA 6/8..100 IN 1933 6/8...97 IN 1933 6/9...99 IN 1933 6/9...98 IN 1933 && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VA...NONE. NC...NONE. WV...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...DS NEAR TERM...JH SHORT TERM...DS LONG TERM...DS AVIATION...JH CLIMATE...DS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 531 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009-010-012-015-019-020-WVZ042>045-080945- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-WYTHE-GRAYSON- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 531 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ003-004-019-020-VAZ011-013-014-016>018-022>024-032>035-043-080945- SURRY-STOKES-WILKES-YADKIN-GILES-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CARROLL-FLOYD- CRAIG-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST- HENRY- 531 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HEAT WILL CONTINUE...WITH HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 92F TO 97F. ANYONE WHO WILL BE OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FROM THE HEAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HEAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY...WITH HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 92F TO 97F. ANYONE WHO WILL BE OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FROM THE HEAT. SOME MODERATION WILL BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE BY TUESDAY AND THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ005-006-VAZ044>047-058-059-080945- ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 531 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HEAT WILL CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY THIS WEEKEND...WITH HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 95F TO 102F. ANYONE WHO WILL BE OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FROM THE HEAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A PROLONGED PERIOD OF HEAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY...WITH HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 98F TO 105F. ANYONE WHO WILL BE OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FROM THE HEAT. HEAT ADVISORIES MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED FOR PART OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY. SOME MODERATION WILL BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE BY TUESDAY AND THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 442 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 VAZ058-072115- HALIFAX VA- 442 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF NATHALIE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF CRYSTAL HILL...MOVING EAST AT 12 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...NATHALIE AT 455 PM EDT...CRYSTAL HILL AT 505 PM EDT...MT LAUREL...CLOVER AT 515 PM EDT... EXPECT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH DURING THE NEXT HOUR...WITH WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZED HAIL. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 503 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 NCZ003-072130- SURRY NC- 503 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2008 AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOONVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER ROCKFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...LEVEL CROSS AT 515 PM EDT...SILOAM AT 520 PM EDT... EXPECT FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...WITH WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZED HAIL. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
505 PM EDT SAT JUN 07 2008
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0425 PM HAIL 2 NE FANCY GAP 36.69N 80.67W
06/07/2008 E0.75 INCH CARROLL VA PUBLIC
HAIL BEGAN ABOUT 425 PM...LASTED 2 MINUTES.
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JJACKSONThe Roanoke radar (KFCX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:23 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds at the intersection of Rockford Road and Robert Burrus Road. Damage values are estimated.
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