The Weather Authority Alert Day issued for Monday, May 27 has been lifted.

A line of strong to severe storms is forecast to move across the area starting Wednesday night

The stormiest time over the next few days appears to be Wednesday night

While storms will be hit-or-miss, they'll have the potential to turn strong Monday night

A Weather Authority Alert Day has been issued for Thursday, April 11.

Warm, humid weather turns to showers and storms

Tornado warnings stretched through the Midwest

Severe thunderstorms are not as common as they might be in other parts of the country, but they do still happen locally in the spring and summer months.

No matter who takes home the College Football Playoff championship Monday night in Houston, a rare nonprofit from the murky, still-developing world of Name, Image, Likeness programs is set to come out on top.

The hailstone fell in Kirk, Colorado in early August

The Weather Authority Alert Day issued for Tuesday, August 15, has been lifted.

There were more than 1,000 reports of severe weather Monday, but ours was isolated. We explain what caused that break in the action

A marginal risk is in effect for all of our zones today, a level 1/5 risk for severe weather. Stay weather aware out there, and keep safe.

Stay safe and weather aware with us through the evening

A marginal risk is in effect for all of our zones today, a level 1/5 risk for severe weather. Stay weather aware out there, and keep safe.

Stay safe and weather aware with us through the evening

Last year’s storm damaged homes and injured two people

Plenty of severe thunderstorms trucked through our counties Tuesday with a few tornado warnings thrown in.

Stay safe and weather aware with us through the evening

Storms between 1 and 9 p.m. Tuesday may produce localized wind damage, hail and flooding

Stronger storms late Tuesday afternoon and evening may contain damaging wind gusts and hail

Some storms will be capable of producing hail or damaging wind Thursday afternoon and evening

Storms Thursday afternoon could produce localized wind damage and/or hail as they move east of the Parkway

A storm system grazes the area Wednesday, but does a lot more in the western half of the country

Storm clusters, heat and humidity continue each day the rest of the week

Storms Tuesday afternoon and evening will be capable of producing scattered outages or wind damage

Clusters of storms continue to dive south Tuesday, while high heat remains each day this week

Localized flooding or severe weather will be possible, especially by Wednesday

A few storms Thursday afternoon and evening may turn strong or severe

Storms east of US 220 Friday could become strong to severe

A front taps into our warmth and humidity to bring the chance for stronger thunderstorms Monday

Wind damage is the main threat, but hail and a tornado or two are possible too

Severe storms Friday afternoon have the capability of producing damaging winds, hail and possibly a tornado too

Strong to severe storms are once again possible Friday afternoon and evening

The severe weather threat is isolated Tuesday afternoon and evening

A Watch means that severe weather is possible

Rounds of rain and storms move through late Tuesday and again Wednesday night

While a severe weather outbreak is forecast in the Deep South, that won't be the case for us Thursday

This same storm produced more than 100 reports of severe weather Monday in the Southern Plains

It's possible that we see a few strong to severe thunderstorms Wednesday

A few storms later in the day Thursday could produce localized wind damage east of the Parkway

ROANOKE, Va. – Strong-to-severe thunderstorms in recent days have brought everything from wind damage to hail, but also produced some interesting cloud structures and rainbows. Thank you all for sending in your pictures. Full Screen 1 / 36 Laura Tucker - Salem

ROANOKE, Va. – Episode #3 of Weather Homeschool shows us how hail can form and how big it can grow. We also show you a cool experiment using a hair dryer and ping pong ball. If you have any questions or topics you want Chris to cover, send them here .

One storm moved through Jones County, dropping large hail near Jeffery Craig’s home in the Tuckers Crossing community. Storm Reports (3/4/2020) (WSLS)Yes, he used a McDonald’s sauce packet! Jeffery, by chance could you measure the length of that sauce packet? — NWS Jackson MS (@NWSJacksonMS) March 4, 2020Jeffery responded that the sauce packet measured 2.375 inches, so the NWS meteorologists concluded that the hailstone was close to tennis-ball sized, about 2.5 inches. While this is a hilarious way to send in a storm report, we suggest you use the typical objects to measure hail size the next time we see any in southwest Virginia.