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with Kevin Myatt

Returning home to storms

My wife and I rolled into town late Tuesday after a 10-day trip to the central and western U.S. (vacation this time, not storm chasing, though we did see a few storms) to find a lightning show over the mountains of Southwest Virginia. Several reports of severe weather were turned into the National Weather Service in Blacksburg today, including a tree blown across the intersection of Franklin Road and Avenham Avenue in Roanoke during the afternoon, several more trees blown down in and around Rocky Mount this evening, and numerous reports of hail and high winds from the Tazewell County area this evening.

Also: Link here for an article on a SUV hit and pinned by a tree blown down in a storm in Alleghany County.

We'll get a couple days break from storms as a weak cold front moves through overnight. The next pretty good chance of thunderstorms arrives over the weekend. Overall, we're still pretty dry, so we could use the rain.

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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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