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Storms blow into Roanoke, other areas

Posted Jun28, 2007 at 05:39 PM

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Ominous storm clouds blow over downtown Roanoke

As scattered severe thunderstorms have developed over Southwest Virginia this afternoon, there have been reports of wind damage in several locations. Trees have been reported at Carter Road and at Edgewood Road in Roanoke, according to reports turned into the National Weather Service in Blacksburg. Trees have also been reported down from storms in Wythe, Floyd, Pulaski and Carroll counties. Click here and scroll down for a list of storm reports turned in to the weather service.

I got a pretty neat photo (click here for a bigger version of inset photo) of a shelf cloud pushing out on outflow winds from a storm over Roanoke shortly after 5 p.m. that was carrying a severe thunderstorm warning at the time. We had heavy rain and wind gusts around 40 mph in the downtown area, but obviously some folks had a little bit higher winds.

The severe thunderstorm watch continues until 11 p.m.

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