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My first storm chase of 2007

Posted Mar28, 2007 at 07:06 PM

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It was a short trip today, but as soon as the severe thunderstorm warning went out for northern Roanoke County and southern Botetourt County at mid-afternoon, I was out and about pursuing a storm for the first time in 2007. I did not find the hail that many folks got pelted with, just a ton of very heavy rain on I-81 from Salem to Daleville and several close cloud-to-ground lightning strokes with booming thunder claps. I only shot a couple of photos today, the best being this shot (a bigger version of the inset pix), taken on Virginia 419 approaching Salem, showing the approaching storm, some rounded structure in the shelf cloud moving out from the storm, and shafts of rain back over Fort Lewis and Catawba mountains. The other photo I took (click here) shows a cumulonimbus tower ... perhaps you know it better as a "thunderhead" ... building in south Roanoke County early this afternoon.

Some of you got a little more rain and hail than you bargained for ... others are wondering what the fuss was all about. But a few crackles of thunder in the distance should have let everyone know that, without a doubt, spring is upon us, and many more months of warmth, humidity and occasional days of thunder are ahead.

If you have photos from today's storms -- either as they were happening or the aftermath -- please feel free to send them to me at the email address linked here.

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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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