Thunderstorm Wind — Spotsylvania, Virginia

2022-06-22 · near Four Mile Fork, Spotsylvania, Virginia

$50K

Property damage

60 EG

Magnitude

Event narrative

Dozens of trees, large tree limbs, and wires blew down over northeastern Spotsylvania County, including along US-17 Mills Drive and VA-636 Mine Road.

Wider weather episode

A strongly unstable airmass in a moderately sheared environment squeezed between two fronts resulted in several clusters of destructive thunderstorms. The most intense thunderstorms propagated north to south along a stalled front dividing very unstable air near and west of Interstate 95, from notably more stable air closer to the Chesapeake Bay.

The event was unusual not only because of the intensity of the thunderstorms, but because they moved in a north to south direction, even propagating south-southwestward at times.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1024258. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.