Thunderstorm Wind — Bristol (c), Virginia

2017-05-24 · near Bristol, Bristol (c), Virginia

Event narrative

Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the City of Bristol, Virginia. In addition, roof structural damage occurred at a few buildings in the city.

Wider weather episode

An amplified upper level trough directed a deep surface low across the Southern Appalachian Region with sufficient moisture but insufficient instability. Some of the storms had a great deal of directional wind shear along with a decent amount of low level speed shear. Some of these storms generated a fair amount of straight line wind damage across the tri-state area.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 688718. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.