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Thunderstorm Wind in Roanoke County, Virginia

Thunderstorm Wind May 30, 2025 · Roanoke County, Virginia

58 mph

Estimated gust (50 kt)

$500

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Thunderstorm winds caused a tree to snap on Larkview Circle.

The wider storm

A cold front arrived in the area from the west, while the right entrance region of a jet streak aloft embedded in a synoptic scale 500mb trough passed across the Mid Atlantic. The cold front provided stronger forcing, and southwesterly flow ahead of the front helped clouds to clear through the morning, and allowed for instability to increase significantly by the afternoon hours. Shear was favorable for both discrete supercells and more linear modes of convection, and widespread wind damage occurred along and east of the Blue Ridge in Virginia.

Began near Cave Spg (37.2600, -80.0000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1258273. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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