Thunderstorm Wind — Clarke, Virginia

2022-06-22 · near Boyce, Clarke, Virginia

Event narrative

Several trees blew down along VA-723 Millwood Road between Boyce and Millwood. A few trees blew down along US-50 John Mosby Highway near Bland Farm, including one that blew down blocking one lane of traffic on US-50 John Mosby Highway one mile east of Boyce.

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 1024279. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.