Thunderstorm Wind — Russell, Virginia

2025-05-17 · near Mt Olive, Russell, Virginia

Event narrative

Widespread trees down across the area from severe thunderstorm straight line wind gusts.

Wider weather episode

A closed low traversing the country brought a cold front through the Mid South region. A weak shortwave spawned a few severe storms in the afternoon across southwest Virginia before a more robust line of severe thunderstorms arrived overnight accompanied by higher shear but lesser instability. Severe storms brought several instances of damaging winds in each round.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1262874. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.