Thunderstorm Wind in Salem (c) County, Virginia

Thunderstorm Wind May 30, 2025 · Salem (c) County, Virginia

69 mph

Estimated gust (60 kt)

$10K

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 downed multiple trees and large limbs, along with powerlines. A car window was damaged, and roof damage occurred to apartment balcony awnings, which were completely removed.

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 Salem (c) (37.2700, -80.0300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1258274. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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