Thunderstorm Wind, Buchanan
- When
- July 1, 9:12 AM EST
- Where
- Buchanan County, Grundy
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -82.100
Trees were blown down onto power lines.
Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 1, 2012
South of a nearly stationary front in the Ohio Valley, predawn showers and thunderstorms weakened as they headed toward northeastern Kentucky. An outflow boundary from that convection helped trigger a new cluster of showers and thunderstorms in southeast Kentucky during the morning.
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
- $10,000
- 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 RLX wrote it up.
South of a nearly stationary front in the Ohio Valley, predawn showers and thunderstorms weakened as they headed toward northeastern Kentucky. An outflow boundary from that convection helped trigger a new cluster of showers and thunderstorms in southeast Kentucky during the morning. These moved southeast into Virginia.
The same pattern produced another round of showers and thunderstorms later that evening.
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 8:03 AM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 8:03 AM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
903 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK MID LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. MEANWHILE HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL
PERSIST THROUGH NEXT WEEK FROM THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE.
&&
.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
CONVECTION UPSTREAM IS STARTING TO ENTER THE FAR WESTERN PORTIONS
OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. THE MODELS IN GENERAL ARE
HAVING SIGNIFICANT DIFFICULTY RESOLVING THE SHORT WAVE ASSOCIATED
WITH IT...HOWEVER THE PREFERRED DEVELOPMENT SEEMS TO BE ALONG A
QUASI-STATIONARY BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDS FROM ROUGHLY CINCINNATI TO
CHARLESTON AT THE MOMENT. THE FORECAST HAS UPDATED TO INCREASE
POPS AND SKY COVER ALONG AND SOUTH OF THAT GENERAL AXIS THROUGH
THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. THE
REST OF THE FORECAST STILL LOOKS TO BE LARGELY ON TRACK. FRIES
PREVIOUS DISCUSSION ON HEAT AND AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWS...
THE REGION WILL BE IN THE SAME PATTERN AS LAST FEW DAYS AGAIN FOR
THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RIDGE...WITH
YET AGAIN ANOTHER HOT AND HUMID DAY. STRONG INSTABILITY DEVELOPING
ONCE AGAIN ALONG WITH MODERATE SHEAR AND SUFFICIENT LOW-LEVEL
MOISTURE WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON STORMS, WITH THE
BETTER CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER. WITH GFS/NAM
INDICATING 850 TEMPS WARMING TO 20-22C, HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE
UPPER 90S ACROSS THE KY/OH/WV TRI-STATE AREA TO THE LOWER 90S
ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL WV. ANOTHER HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY FOR THE CRW- HTS VCNTY ON WEST AS HEAT
INDICES WARM INTO THE 100-105 RANGE.
&&
.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/...
WITH NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUING ACROSS THE REGION...EXPECT TRAIN OF
CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES/UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES TO CONTINUE. TIMING AND
LOCATION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPLEX IS VERY TOUGH. BLENDED TOWARDS
THE NAMDNG5...WHICH AT LEAST SHOWS SOME PROGRESSION OF INDIVIDUAL
SYSTEMS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...BUT AGAIN...CONFIDENCE IS FAIRLY
LOW IN SPECIFICS AT THIS POINT...AND FURTHER REFINEMENT WILL LIKELY
BE NEEDED AS WE HEAD INTO NEXT WEEK. WITH THE CENTRAL US RIDGE
STAYING IN PLACE...EXPECT TO SEE THE ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES
CONTINUE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM...ALTHOUGH IT DOES NOT LOOK TO BE AS
HOT AS PREVIOUS FEW DAYS.
&&
.LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
UPPER RIDGE TO HOLD ON PLACE OVER CENTRAL CONUS WITH CWA STILL
POSSIBLE TO HANG ONTO 500MB FLOW...AND THUS DISTURBANCES ALOFT.
THEREFORE...PATTERN WILL LINGER FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE WITH
HOT WEATHER IN PLACE...BUT CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS.
CARRYING THE BETTER CHANCES DURING THE DAYS BUT NOT ELIMINATING
THEM AT NIGHT. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT WITH THE TEMPERATURES HOLDING IN
THE 90S FOR THE LOWLANDS AND 80S IN THE MOUNTAINS.
&&
.AVIATION /13Z SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS MRNG OVER PARTS OF
SOUTHERN OHIO...TO THE NORTH OF STALLED SFC BOUNDARY...AND IN
ASSOCIATION WITH WEAK SHORTWAVE IN THE WNW FLOW ALOFT. MENTION OF
MORNING PCPN WL THUS BE INCLUDED IN HTS AND CRW TAFS IN THE FORM OF
TEMPO GROUPS.
OTHERWISE...AREAS OF MVFR...AND ISOLATED IFR IF FOG WILL QUICKLY
IMPROVE TO VFR AS THE MORNING PROGRESSES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
MAY IMPOSE MORE RESTRICTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
FORECAST CONFIDENCE THROUGH 00Z MONDAY...MEDIUM.
FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY...
FORECAST CONFIDENCE: ***LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH***
ALTERNATE SCENARIOS:
EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY
OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION:
H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.
M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS.
L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.
AFTER 12Z MONDAY...
NO PERSISTENT OR WIDESPREAD IFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
&&
.RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WV...HEAT ADVISORY FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR WVZ005>007-013>015-024>026.
OH...HEAT ADVISORY FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR OHZ086-087.
KY...HEAT ADVISORY FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR KYZ101>103-105.
VA...NONE.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:03 AM EST, 6 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 403 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 OHZ076-085-VAZ003-004-WVZ008>011-016>020-027>040-046-047-020815- WASHINGTON-MEIGS-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER- ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS- HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 403 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. OHZ066-067-075-083-084-020815- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-JACKSON OH-VINTON- 403 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ086-087-WVZ005>007-013>015-024>026-020815- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL- MASON-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE- 403 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:55 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 455 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 WVZ015-027-036-037-010930- CLAY WV-FAYETTE WV-KANAWHA WV-NICHOLAS WV- 455 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 ...THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KANAWHA...CLAY...NICHOLAS AND FAYETTE... AT 453 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CHARLESTON INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 19 MILES WEST OF SUMMERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL GENERATE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... SUMMERSVILLE KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772. 15
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:10 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Dickenson
- When
- July 1, 9:45 PM EST
- Where
- Dickenson County, 0.88 mi SE of Georges Fork
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 37.140, -82.490
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Excessive Heat in Missouri, July 1 to 8, 2012
- Heat in Missouri, July 1 to 31, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1, 2012
- Heat in Michigan, July 1 to 7, 2012
- Heat in Ohio, July 1 to 7, 2012
- Excessive Heat in Indiana, July 1 to 8, 2012
- Heat in Tennessee, July 1 to 7, 2012
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Carolina, July 1, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1 to 2, 2012
- Excessive Heat in Illinois, July 1 to 8, 2012
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat in Wisconsin, July 1 to 7, 2012
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, July 2012
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: 397416, 397420.