A stalled frontal boundary helped to produce scattered thunderstorms that became severe. Winds from these storms blew down a notable number of trees.
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A stalled frontal boundary helped to produce scattered thunderstorms that became severe. Winds from these storms blew down a notable number of trees. One of the storms also produced an EF-1 tornado in Halifax County with peak winds at 100 mph, which downed numerous trees and caused structural damage.
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 24, 1:30 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 230 PM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A stationary front over the Mid Atlantic region will provide the focus for scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms through Thursday. A secondary front moves across Thursday night with less coverage for showers and storms starting Friday and continuing through the weekend. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/... As of 145 PM EDT Wednesday... Key Messages: 1) Stalled front still remains draped across the area. 2) Rain and thunderstorms possible through this evening/overnight. Still quite a bit of rain and cloud cover along and west of the Blue Ridge this afternoon. Thinking this will continue to limit thunderstorm coverage for the remainder of the afternoon for the mountains. However, seeing some clearing over the Foothills and Piedmont areas of VA and NC so confidence remains higher that this zone will have the best chance for thunderstorms through the evening. Much like yesterday, storms will be capable of very heavy rainfall and areas of localized wind damage are possible. Rain and storms taper off after sunset and the area should remain in a lull through at least midnight. Will begin to see rain develop again after midnight as better isentropic lift moves over the region. Should see rain continue through daybreak tomorrow, tapering off by late morning. A secondary front will begin to push south from the Ohio Valley and will attempt to push drier air into the region by Thursday night. Depending on how much clearing occurs tomorrow ahead of the front will determine the coverage of thunderstorms during the afternoon. Still a bit of uncertainty how fast the front progresses and how much surface heating can occur after morning rainfall moves out. Again, any storms tomorrow will be capable of very efficient rainfall rates and localized strong damaging winds. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... As of 220 PM EDT Wednesday... Key Messages: 1: Less coverage of showers/storms. High pressure is forecast to move east across the northern Mid- Atlantic, with drying taking place from north to south. This feature is expected to drive wedge of stable down the east side of the Appalachians so looking at decrease opportunity for showers as Thursday's secondary cold front getting shunted to our south and west. Pressure pattern looks "wedgy" with development of a northeast-east wind. This should nix shower potential for areas east of the Appalachian Divide. Attm will maintain chance for showers for areas west of I-77 Friday, then mainly west of our CWA for the weekend. Weekend as a whole looks dry, but not confident that it will be clear. Lingering layer of low level moisture may result in persistent cloud cover...especially for the southwestern part of the CWA, but model soundings support little or no cloud depth. Temperatures going into this weekend will be highly dependant on cloud cover...MOS favoring readings at or below normal. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... As of 230 PM EDT Tuesday... Key Messages: 1: Mainly dry Sunday 2: Scattered showers/storms return Monday 3: Warming temperatures Monday-Wednesday. High pressure will move off the East coast Sunday into Monday with moist southwest winds returning by Monday. This will result in increasing potential for showers beginning Sunday night with daily threat for thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday as heat and instability trend upward. Temperatures are expected to be near normal Sunday-Monday, then about 5 degrees above normal for Tuesday-Wednesday...but nothing extreme. && .AVIATION /18Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... As of 150 PM EDT Wednesday... Ample cloud cover along and west of the Blue Ridge has kept terminals in these locations at low end VFR to MVFR through this afternoon. Not much confidence of this changing through this evening so expect ongoing MVFR clouds and showers of rainfall for the mountains through tomorrow morning for areas along and west of the Blue Ridge. Due to lack of sun in the aforementioned areas, have removed the mention of VCTS/TSRA from BCB/BLF/LWB. Better clearing has occurred east of the Blue Ridge and thunderstorm development is still expected, so periods of very heavy rain through this afternoon and evening is still possible for ROA/LYH/DAN. Widespread low cigs/vsby again tonight so fairly high confidence all terminals see IFR/LIFR at times through daybreak. Extended Aviation Outlook... Frontal boundary will stick around into Friday morning before driving southward over the weekend. Should start to see less coverage in showers/storms Friday and especially into the weekend, so mainly VFR outside of storms and late night fog/stratus. && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VA...None. NC...None. WV...None. && SYNOPSIS...BMG NEAR TERM...BMG SHORT TERM...PM LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...BMG
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 409 AM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024 NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-035-WVZ042>044-507-508-250815- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski- Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke- Botetourt-Rockbridge-Amherst-Mercer-Summers-Monroe- Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier- 409 AM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered to numerous thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. Excessive rainfall could lead to isolated flash flooding of streams and urban areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. There is a marginal risk of excessive rainfall through Thursday. Heavy rain from thunderstorms could lead to localized flooding. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ032>034-043>047-058-059-250815- Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Wilkes-Yadkin-Patrick-Franklin- Bedford-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax- Charlotte- 409 AM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024 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. Numerous showers and thunderstorms will produce instances of torrential rain this afternoon and into tonight. This will lead to a risk of scattered flash flooding, especially in urban and poor drainage areas. Additionally, a few storms could become strong to severe with damaging wind gusts the main threat this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. There is a marginal risk of excessive rainfall through Friday. Heavy rain from thunderstorms could lead to localized flooding. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:50 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down one tree on Sunnybrook Circle.
Thunderstorm winds blew down one large tree on to Route 57 just west of the intersection with Route 220.
Thunderstorm winds blew down one tree on Oakland Drive.
Thunderstorm winds blew down multiple trees on to Riceville Road.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees on County Line Road.
A tornado touched down near the intersection of Chatham Road and Ridgeway Road in western Halifax County. The tornado uprooted and snapped numerous trees as it strengthened and moved eastward, and it also caused minor structural damage. The peak winds were estimated to reach 100 mph. After being on the ground for eighteen minutes, the tornado lifted in central Halifax County just east of the L.P. Bailey Memorial Highway close to the intersection with Murphy Grove Road.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree that uprooted and fell on to a house along Chatham Road. The fallen tree caused notable damage to the roof and windows of the house.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees along Bethel Road.
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