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Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Cumberland, VA; Fluvanna, VA; Goochland, VA +1 more

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At 623 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Palmyra, moving southeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect considerable tree damage....

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For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.

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At 623 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Palmyra, moving southeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. This severe storm will be near... Columbia around 630 PM EDT. Duncan around 635 PM EDT. Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Dixie, Nahor, Stage Junction, Shores, Zion Crossroads, Central Plains, Bremo Bluff, Antioch, Union Mills, and Caledonia.

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Official revisions

4 captured
  1. Update

    Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 14 at 6:23PM EDT until August 14 at 6:30PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

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  2. Update

    Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 14 at 6:14PM EDT until August 14 at 6:30PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

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  3. Update

    Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 14 at 5:52PM EDT until August 14 at 6:30PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

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  4. Alert

    Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 14 at 5:42PM EDT until August 14 at 6:30PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

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Publisher: Weather Alert Watch. Primary source: NWS Wakefield VA. This page reorganizes official fields and does not add a forecast or expand the affected area.

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