Weather Alerts For Radford, VA

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in BLACKSBURG has issued a - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southern Pulaski County in southwestern Virginia... Smyth County in southwestern Virginia... Southwestern Floyd County in southwestern Virginia... Southeastern Tazewell County in southwestern Virginia... Southern Bland County in southwestern Virginia... Wythe County in southwestern Virginia... Carroll County in southwestern Virginia... The City of Galax in southwestern Virginia... Grayson County in southwestern Virginia... Western Patrick County in southwestern Virginia... - Until 1245 PM EDT. - At 1143 AM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Copper Valley to near Adwolf, moving southeast at 40 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Pulaski... Wytheville... Galax... Marion... Hillsville... Chilhowie... and Rural Retreat. ISSUED AT Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 11:44 AM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service BLACKSBURG VA HEADER BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Severe Thunderstorm Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Prepare immediately for damaging winds. For your safety, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Stay away from windows. When it is safe to do so, please send your reports of hail of any size, as well as reports of any wind damage, including downed trees or large limbs, to the National Weather Service by calling toll free at 1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. Reports and pictures can also be shared on the National Weather Service Blacksburg Facebook page and on X.

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PULASKI, NORTHEASTERN SMYTH, WEST CENTRAL FLOYD, SOUTHERN BLAND, WYTHE, NORTHERN CARROLL AND NORTHEASTERN GRAYSON COUNTIES THROUGH NOON EDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 1129 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from Pulaski to near Nebo. Movement was southeast at 30 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Pulaski... Wytheville... Dublin... Rural Retreat... Ceres... Max Meadows... and Allisonia. ISSUED AT Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service BLACKSBURG VA HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Bland VA, Carroll VA, Floyd VA, Grayson VA, Pulaski VA, Smyth VA, Wythe VA

Closest strike: 7 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PORTIONS OF THE OHIO VALLEY INTO SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC AND CAROLINAS SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms capable of mainly damaging gusts are possible across portions of the Ohio Valley into southern Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas this afternoon and evening. Isolated occurrences of large hail and severe wind gusts also appear possible over parts of the northern and central Plains today into tonight. Ohio Valley into the Carolinas An MCS continues to progress southeastward towards the central Appalachians this morning. The outflow has surged well ahead of the deep convection along the western edge of this MCS, but remains much closer to the two primary cores of deep convection along the central and eastern portions of the MCS. General expectation is for this MCS to continue southeastward across the central Appalachians and into the Mid-Atlantic, while the westward-progressing outflow stalls and loses definition. Currently, the airmass downstream across the Mid-Atlantic is characterized by dewpoints ranging from the upper 60s across northern VA into the mid 70s across southeast NC/eastern SC. Strong heating is anticipated across much of this region today, with high temperatures ranging from the low 90s over northern to the upper 90s/low 100s across central/eastern SC. These warm and moist surface conditions will support moderate to strong afternoon buoyancy, despite poor mid-level lapse rates. Reintensification and/or renewed thunderstorm development is expected as the MCS (and associated vorticity maximum) interacts with this destabilized airmass. This region will be along the southerly periphery of a belt of mid-level northwesterlies, and the resulting vertical shear could help maintain a favorable cold pool/updraft balance needed to maintenance of a progressive convective line. Guidance varies on whether one coherent convective line or a series of smaller bowing segments will develop, but either case would yield a threat for damaging gusts. Highest probability for damaging gusts is expected across eastern NC where the best overlap between buoyancy and vertical is expected. Additional afternoon development is expected farther west, from the middle OH Valley through Middle TN, where residual outflow will likely be present with a destabilized airmass. Weak shear should limit storm organization but isolated damaging gusts are possible. Northern and Central Plains Elevated thunderstorms have persisted throughout much of the night from northeast NE across eastern SD. A second area of thunderstorm activity exists farther norther across north-central ND. An isolated instance of hail is possible over both of these regions for the next few hours before thunderstorm intensity wanes in response to the cessation of the nocturnal low-level jet. Despite rising heights throughout the day, most guidance suggests that low-level convergence along both the lee trough and outflow-modified front in NE will be sufficient for convective initiation this afternoon. Limited vertical shear and a deeply mixed boundary layer suggest an outflow-dominant storm mode with the primary hazard being widely-spaced severe wind gusts. Relatively higher thunderstorm coverage is possible across the central High Plains this evening as warm-air advection supports additional thunderstorm activity. Some clustering of this activity is possible, but vertical shear will be weak and overall storm intensity and organization should be modest. Western Montana A belt of enhanced mid/upper-level flow will extend across the region, to the east of an upper low over the Pacific Northwest. Increasing mid-level moisture and forcing for ascent associated with a weak mid-level disturbance is expected to support an increase in high-based showers and a few thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. Lapse rates will be steep with strong deep-layer shear, but the absence of appreciable moisture will limit MLCAPE to generally less than 250 J/kg. As such the potential for severe wind gusts is currently too low to warrant 5% wind probabilities.

Pollen Index: 10 Pollen Level: high Predominant Pollen: Ragweed and Grass. The amount of pollen in the air for Sunday will not change appreciably and will remain in the very high range. This lack of change in airborne pollen will continue to affect those who suffer from allergies and those who live with the allergy sufferers.