Thunderstorm Wind — Botetourt, Virginia

2022-08-05 · near Daleville, Botetourt, Virginia

Event narrative

Thunderstorm winds blew close to 45 trees down across the southern portion of Botetourt county with trees down in the communities of Daleville, Troutville, and Blue Ridge. Damage values are estimated.

Wider weather episode

An upper level disturbance crossed the region during the peak heating of the day. The timing of these two events helped yield a generous coverage of showers and storms across the area, with a couple of storms becoming severe. Those that became severe produced damaging wind gusts. Lightning was also known to have struck a house and also a chimney.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1051522. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.