On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 the sky looked like that!
Beginning as a severe thunderstorm warning in Tazewell around 6pm, the hail and wind maker roared east-southeast at 45mph through the Virginia countryside dropping quarter size hail, heavy rain and wind gusts topping 40mph.
As it crossed Bland and Wythe counties, Gary White took this picture. On it marched through Pulaski, Floyd and Franklin. That's where it got really scary. The hail covered the ground causing the temperature to drop so quickly that dense fog formed and literally stopped the traffic on route 220. The next morning, News 7 covered the story of trees crushing houses, cars and power lines as they fell. Amazingly, no one was hurt. However, gardens were destroyed and traffic was slowed. We ran 20 crawls at the top of the screen over a 3 hour period alerting viewers to the type of storm that was rolling through. After the event, a viewer called to say she was never going to watch our station again. She heard the thunder and saw the hail and didn't need us to tell her there was a thunderstorm outside. Sometimes other TV stations do go overboard on their weather coverage. But I can assure you that SkyTracker 7 Weather will always alert you to severe weather events. And this storm was a doozie.
Chief Meteorologist Robin Reed
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