Thunderstorm Wind — Franklin, Virginia

2025-05-30 · near Rocky Mt, Franklin, Virginia

Event narrative

Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Old Franklin Turnpike.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1258285. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.